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Show FOUR KILLED BY, AMBUSH PARTY Sinn Fein Attack Military Near Killarney DUBLIN, March i (By the Associated Associ-ated Press). Two officers and two members of the ranks were killed when thirty-five men, comprising a military party, were ambushed today between Killarney and Buttevant Fighting is still going on, according; to sn official statement tonight. PROTEST TO HARDING. WA8HINOTOX, March i. Frank P. Walsh, counsel for the provisional Irish republic, announced today ha had submitted to Preaident Harding a protest against the shooting on February Feb-ruary 2S, "by the British military forces In Ireland," of six men. The protest, ho said, was based on- the grounds that the men were prisoners of war. The men "had laM down their arms, had no longer means of defense and had surrendered at discretion," he chsrged, "and shooting them wss a violation of The Hague convention, which forbids killing or wounding the enemy" under such circumstances. In his protest, he added, he had asked the United State to address a remonstrance remon-strance to Great Britain. Similar protests, pro-tests, he said, had been filed with all foreign embassies here. |