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Show CONSTABLES TO FOIL BOMBERS BY CARRYING SINN FEIN ON MOTORS QUBLIN. Jan. 20. Eigh t men, seven of whom were constables, con-stables, were shot and killed in engagements with Sinn Feiners near this city yesterday. Six of the constables met death when their motor car ran into an ambuscade, while the body of another was found near the bar-racks of his squad yesterday morning Fhe civilian slain was shot by several men who entered his home. Announcement has been made that in future all motoT cars carry ing constables and therefore, likely to be attacked, will carry members of the Sinn Fein as hosUges, This plan , has been in operation near Cork where martial law is in force and ha, it is said, acted as a preventative of attacks on parties of constabulary. Two three-story houses in Cork was destroyed b British army engineers yesterday as an act of official reprisal for an attack made on crown forces in their neighborhood. neigh-borhood. The buildings were shattered by dynamite, and reports reaching here indicate several adjacent structures ; were severely damaged. |