1,500 in 44 Months An official return recently issued from the Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, shows that between May 1, 1916, and December 21 last, 1,520 outrages were attributed to the Sinn Fein movement—134_ in Ulster, 429 in Leinster (including the Dublin Metropolitan area), 205 in Connaught, and 761 in Munster. The nature of these crimes is shown by the following table:—
Murders of military, police, and officials 18 Murders of civilians 2 Firing at potice 50 Firing at military 13 Firing at civilians 4 Assaults on police 46 Assaults on civilians WwW Raids, ete., for arms on police 20 Raids, etc., for arms on military 7 Raids, ete., for arms on civilians' 502 Incendiary fires 70 Injury to property 279 Tiring into police dwellings 3 Firing into civilian dwellings 38 threatening letters 180 Miscellaneous 210 'The latest hi-weekly summary of outrages, up to January 20, comprehends 12 cases' On the 18th instant, the Holycross Police Barracks was attacked by armed wen, who riddled the windows and exploded a bomb under the gable. ho police replied to the fire, and the raiders did not succeed in entering. None of the police was injured, In van district, County Meath, 30 cattle and 10 sheep were carrying sticks. When ordered. by Criven off grazing land by 15 men
the police to do so. the men dispersed, They said they were acting under the orders of the "Back to the Land League." The four ringleaders were committed to gaol for a month.
Rui any Dance.
On January 17, the Parochial Hall of Listowel," County Kerry. where a dance was in progress, was raided by about a dozen masked men, who fired a shot through the ceiling. The raiders ordered the guests to clear out. This they refused to do. As the dance wes organized by respectable _peopic of all classes the raid is attributed to blackguardism and spite.
A double-barrelled shot gun and tridges were on the sth instant, taken from a locked office in the' Marquess of Ormonde's garden at Kilkenny. A sum of £15 lying on the table was not touched. At Bandon, on the 14th, three houses were raided by a score of disguised men, in a search for arms. None of the Sinn Feiners was identified. On' the 13th at Tuam four shots were fired outside the house of a publican, who had allowed the police to take sand from his pit to fill bags for defence of their barracks.
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