New-York tribune., 1921-02-21
Eight Others Captured
When Troops Surprise
Republicans Planning
Ambuscade Near Cork
Protestant Farmer
Slain i'm His Home
Unconscious Sergeant Is
Carried From Hospital
Into Street and Shot

CORK, Feo. 20 by The Associated
Press).--Thirteen civilians were killed
and eight captured, of whom three
were wounded, in an engagement this
afternoon in the district between Lis
goold and Middleton County Cork, &C
cording to general headquarters re,
port. This is believed to be the largest
number of casualties among the mem
bers of the Irish republican army in
any singIe encounter.
The casualties occurred in des-
perate running fight between a detach-
ment of a Hampshire regiment and a
large party of Republicans. The troops
came upon the Republican forces pre-
pairing an ambush, and attacked them.
The soldiers caught the civilians
in house. The civilian forces split
up, some of the" remaining in the
house, while the others took up posi-
tions in the garden.
In the fighting which followed one
soldier was slightly wounded, and the
civilians were disnersed and pursued.
A search of the house revealed ouanti-
ties of buried arms and ammunition.
Ex-SerIgeant Nohilly was shot and
wounded in this city Saturday. He
was taken to hospital. Four armed
men this morning entered the hospital
and carried Nohilly, who was uncon-
scious, on a stretcher into the street
and shot him dead.
laborer was shot dead near Cashel
and another laborer was shot and seri-
ously wounded at Mullagh, Meath, last
night.
Trains Held Up
Twenty armed men yesterday held
up train at Clara, Kings County, and
took away the kits of the officers oil
board.
A freight train was held up in CAVIAR
and the contents OF the car scattered
over the tracks.
Nine members Of the Cork Corpora.
ireland were among eighty persens
sent to the Spike Island fnternment
camp Saturday as political prisoners.
DUBLIN, Reb. 20 Shortly before
noon to-day according to Dublin
Castle reports, an automobile with ar
officer and three auxiliary police was
attacked while hating outside the
Phibsboro Church. A bomb was thrown
and revolver shots were fired at the
machine from four different directions
The occupants of thee car returned
the fire. and then gave chase. One OF
the attacking party was seen to have
been wounded, but all the men escaped
None of the auxiliaries was hurt.
Two Brothers Shot Dead
Called upon to halt at Blackwater
County Clare, several youths refused
to do so. The soldiers fred volley
and two brothers. Donovan by name
fourteen and eighteen years of age
were killed
Sim Fein headquarters reports that
three auxiliary officers, major, cap
tain and subaltern, have been arrested
charged with the murder of Kennedy
and Murphy, who were found shot al
Tolkats Ridge, about three weeks ago
after being liberated from arrest al
Dublin Castle fifteen minutes before
the curfew hour and told to go home.
GALWAY. Feb 2O.-District Council
lor John Geoghegan was taken from
his bed Sunday morning to the road
side and shot by two masked men. They
told him he had been convicted Of
treason.
BELFAST, Feb. 20. - a party OF
armed men last night shot to death
William O'Connell, a Protestant farm
err, at his home in Lissanubig, SIKH
bereen, in the presence of his wife
! O'Connell is reported tn have inform &c
the authorities concerning the actvi
ties of collectors of the Irish republic
army fund.
Matthew Sweetman. another farmer
was shot dead at Lissanubig. 1t is be.
lieved that the same band that shot
O'Connell killed Sweetman.