The Sinn Feiners- attacked the police barracks at Tramore, County
Waterford, on Friday, January 7th, and laid an ambush for the troops sent to relieve the post. Both the rebel parties were, however, driven• off ; three Sinn Feiners were killed. On Saturday the police at Longwood, County Meath, were attacked but repulsed the assailants. On Monday a Sinn Fein gang attempted to murder an officer and his wife, who with another officer were driving into Dublin in a military car ; the lady narrowly escaped death. Later on the same day a policeman was attacked in one of the main streets of Dublin, but he for- tunately contrived to kill oneand wound another of the would-be assassins. In the counties under martial law large numbers of arms have been seized, but the Sinn Fein murder-gangs seem to be moving northward. One gang committed a foul murder in County .Armagh on Tuesday, their victim being a young Nationalist farmer who had presumably quarrelled with the local rebel organizers.
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