Evening star., 1921-04-22
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, April 22.-Insde stories of
the ambushes laid by the Irish repub
lican army to trap and kill squads of
British constables in Ireland are dis
closed in the reports from the Irish bri-
gade commanders which have just been
given out at the headquarters of the
volunteers in Dublin. Most of these
attacks have been reported by the
British. but the Irish accounts are
now given for the first time.
They give the details of desperate
fights in which. sometimes. the little
British commands have been deci-
have been driven off with severe
losses. for the Irish volunteers occa-
sionally run into Il counter trap and
hnd themselves exposed to the Wither-
ing blast of machine gun.
These reports show the methods en-
ploycd to carry on the guerrilla fight
ing, the hurried calls to assemble the
Irish attackers. efforts to surprise the
British constables in some isolated
spot, and tell Of the use of mines to
block the passage of motor cars, so
that the attack can be delivered with
greater execution.
Typical Ambush Described.
A typical ambush is described in a
report of the commander of the East
County Glare Brigade. Thirty We
men. five acting as scouts, attacked a
police lorry containing a district in
spector and nine constables at Glen
wood Belvoir. killing all but four,
who escaped. Twenty of the attackers.
1T is stated. We're armed with rifles
and ten with double barreled shot
guns. They were concealed on one
side of a road near a stream.
AS in previous ambush the COM
mander reports. "the main body was
divided into three parties. The posi-
tion which was occupied at am. was
not very favorable. but we counted on
the element of surprise and the con-
centrated fire of fifteen of the rifles
and the ten ShotgunS in the first vol
ley to make up for shortcomings. and
in this we were successful
Police Detail Wiped Out.
They waited, it appears, until 4
lorry came in sight. When the car
came into the center position" the re-
port continues, "it was raked with
the fire of the twenty-four guns. most
of the police were shot off and the car
came to dead stop. Some of the
police when they got on the road
made an attempt to put up a fight,
Dut the second Noliey. Whlch included
all the rifles, wiped them OUT
What is termed IAN exceedingly
risky operation. as we were half the
enemy strength" was the attack in
County Donegal on a military train
from Derry. According to the brig;ae
commanders report, the attacking
party numbered twenty-six. Informa-
ton was received at $50 at night, the
report says. that the special train was
to leave Derry at am. the next
morning.
Little time was left to choose a
position and get settled, but the train
was late, giving us three-quarters of
an hour to get ready. We chose
cutting. one side of which was on a
level with the carriage windows. At
the ends of each side we placed bomb
ers and riflemen and between were
placed the remaining rfemen and
the others differently armed. Two
large powders were placed on the
rails and the wire fences at each side
were pulled up to afford a safe exit.
The station building a short distance
away was taken possession of and
green light displayed.
Bombs Hurled Into Train.
'There were seven carriages on the