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Show THE STANDARD-EXAMINER S PAGE Of FOREIGN DISPATCHES I 1 Sinn Feiners' Cleverness H OulwiSs British Soldiery Quick Wit and Quick Action Often Needed to Escape From W j Clutches of Police How Belleek Police Barracks Were Taken Without Firing a Shot Sinn Fein Member of I J Parliament Trapped in His House Escapes Through Cor- don of Detectives. Bj I. OH n ELL. (Sped Correspondent International News Sen !-.) HH DUBLIN, Oct. 16 The exploit of , ilw Sinn Pelni n I hi Ing Bell el BViflLWl (County Ki rmun.-ichi poll' barr.n - WyW w ithout as nineties firm? ix iKol nV 1 brings to mind sonic of their during. IK sWIlkj clever coups At RHieek a party "f Irish republicans repub-licans drove up to the locul police b.rr-racks, b.rr-racks, which was fortified iy wnd-hags wnd-hags and barbed wire, while the defenders de-fenders were Well provided with bombs, rifles and ammunition. To take such a place by a frontal attack might have been B long and COfttlj business for the raiders and BO ihe decided on a trick. Disguised as S ' dlers they knocked at the door and were admitted as friend-. The audacL ty ot the maneUvre was complete successful. Inside the building it only required the twlnkllnfi of an eye to overpower the police, hind them and lock them in an outhouse All the rifles, bombs, revolvers and ammunition ammuni-tion were seized by the .Sinn Peiners, who escaped in their waiting automo-Idles. automo-Idles. The raid was perfectly timed, inasmuch as art of the police garrison garri-son was out a"' mass 1,1 '10 tlm . and as a precaution against their Mining Min-ing their comrades the church doors wore locked. FOOL -ENGLISH ll TE4 Tit I !S Another similar feat was carried out J the other night in Dublin. A number of detectives were watching a house whro a badly wanted Sinn Fein mi m-ber m-ber of parliament was staying. There was no chanc of escape, the plan was watched from all sides and It Wtt I only a matter of some hour.- when j darkness set In that a party of soldiers would arrive to make the arrest A : military truck did arrive with khaki clad soldiers In it fully equipped w ith , tJn hats and all, but thy were not Knglish soldiers thej were Just Sinn! Feiners sailing under strange color The officer of the party asked one of the plain clothes men to at i Din pan hlip ,LI make the search and tpture This was actually done, and without) any hurry they put. the handcuffs o.ij. their man and shipped lilm ofl in theh auto. Before Starting, however, Ihcl. officer save Instructions to the detec- Jj tivfs to continue their watch on th h house The re, if arrestftig part did arrive some time later and the chagrin j of both military and police can be lm- , aglned when they found their prey had slipped through th lr fingers. BARBER SHOP I KM K J. J Mulsh, one of the Sinn 1 members of parliament tells me two B amusing stories of ho whe evaded cap- ) ir lure. On One OC LSlon u was In H his shop in DUblih, Where he runs u H tobacconist anil barber business. The E military had come for him and w is H at the door. To dash nut into the H street or attempt to climb along the H roof was out of the question, so Walsh H slipped into the barber's shop at the H rear of the place and grit one of the H assistants to slip a towel about his H neck and lather up You can bet h soap was never put on so brisk as It ifl was then The police officers and H military actually entered tin- place and H stood within a few feet of him and fl never guessed the truth They depart IH eil without making the capture. jH Walsh had a run of a few months kH after that before he was captured and rEH eighteen months ago he eras tried by rfiflH court-martial and a sentence of six PtMH years is hanging over hkn. The day following his trial he with tWentj oth- MLH ers, escaped from the famous Mount - HKT Joy prison and since then he has been reHRf! on the run. Today ,e was telling me BUS of a "close shave" he had when in nHu the North of Ireland last week In his IjKa ( auto-blke. The authorities got wind jHRSl ho was in the disti n i and every road jfOi-j was watched At t'ortador- the police ujif-i gt him but Walsh decided brazen egtp It out. He told them he knew th- man Bun they were after, but were thev not fcPjsjh mistaken in taking him to be J. J. ffi Walsh? He produced his driver's 11- BHT cense, which was. of course. In some ot ii i mi Howe1 er, the fl leers had Jt suspicious and marched him t" iflH tTTo barracks and held him for four iH hours. What really got him away HvJ was a photo of himself with his au- MH tograph which he had with him. The picture was to unlike W alsh's fact that nBJ the police when shown this picture bo. RrB Came convinced they bad the wrong man and let him go. "It was" said he, "six ) tan for mo only for that." |