BATTLE WITH POLICE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8263, 17 October 1906, Page 3

BATTLE WITH POLICE.

A vigorous battle was fought in the early hours of the morning recently, ■ on the hills round Ballinßeary, near Maaroom, Co. Cork. Before tbe dawn a large force of Irish Constabulary marched into the town fo arrest tbe ringleaders of trie men who resisted the sheriff at a recent eviction. They found that tbe Ballingearyites had heard of their determination, and with the exception of a few old women and decrepit men the town was deserted. Tbe police sent out scouts, and tbey found the villagers entrenched in force on the hills. A. connoil of war was held, and then the police,, splitting into two portions, moved to tbe attack. One body made a frontal attaok, while the other, and stronger, crept round tbe hill to tbe back with the object of taking tbe enemy in the rear. Ten minutes afterwards the police fled down the bill. Tbey had been ambuscaded by the young men of tbe village, who, arrred with spades, reaping-hooks, and furze cutters, had taken up a position half way up the hill and lain there in the darkness. A second council of war was just being foirned when, with loud and triumphant oriee the villagers, concentrating on the hilltop, prepared to attaok in turn, It was a tactical error. The police rushed the bill, and, after a short fight, captured the leaders of tbe rebellion. They were taken iatc the gaol, and there for hours the people of the countryside listened with delight to the strains of "The Boys of Wexford" and other National airs. The rebels, still singing, were afterwards placed under strong guard in a large brake and taken to Macroom before a speoial bench of magistrates. Tbey sang