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BRIGADIER SLAIN IN IRISH AMBUSH; General Cumming Shot Dead on West Cork Road Despite Strong Guard. FIGHT KEPT UP AN HOUR Large Irish Band Escapes in Wild Country--Another British Officer Killed. BRIGADIER SLAIN IN IRISH AMBUSH Bomb Attack in Dublin. FIRES SET IN ENGLAND. Acts of Incendiarism Attributed to Sinn Fein.

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March 7, 1921, Page 1 The New York Times Archives

DUBLIN, March 6.--Brig. Gen. H. R. Cumming, D.S.O., was killed in an ambush in West Cork yesterday afternoon. He was in control of a Kerry brigade and was returning heavily escorted from Killarney to his headquarters at Buttevant. General Cumming had just crossed the border from Kerry into Cork when the attack developed. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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A version of this archives appears in print on March 7, 1921, on Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: BRIGADIER SLAIN IN IRISH AMBUSH; General Cumming Shot Dead on West Cork Road Despite Strong Guard. FIGHT KEPT UP AN HOUR Large Irish Band Escapes in Wild Country--Another British Officer Killed. BRIGADIER SLAIN IN IRISH AMBUSH Bomb Attack in Dublin. FIRES SET IN ENGLAND. Acts of Incendiarism Attributed to Sinn Fein. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe