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IRELAND: A LAND OF SILENT A 11.30 Sina Feiners broke into the
WAR.
house and, murdered the Lord Mayor, AN ACCOUNT OF LIFE UNDER THE about one-thirty, some man rang up the carrying off the papers with them. At
SINN FEIN TERROR.
Police Station and informed then that the
The London correspondent of the Japan | Mayor had been' murdered. When asked Advertiser, in forwarding the melosed to give his same, be said What has that interview describes it as an authentic to do with it? But at any race he know stacement, geither exaggerated nor colours that the police visit
fixeil for two WIN ed in any way."
am, and, with a fine senso at insolence, he clearly thought to warn them that this
Ireland is then heading for anarchy,"
"I said to an drishman who had just revisit would be purposeless. That is how turned from a more or less speret visit to the Lord Mayor of Cork was killed, and the country. Heading, he replied the effort to fasten the crime on to the
Anarchy exists now.”
police is but one of those topsy-turvy ju cidents in a country where now overy: thing goes by contraries
AGRABIAN UNREST.
People in Great Britain seem to think that the unrest in Ireland is mainly, if not entirely, political. It is so in the South and North, where you have not merely practically, but actually, a mort of Bolshevising cried out by secret socie then which have terrorised the entire com- munity. In the Centre and West, how- ever, it is agrarian, but the Sinn Feiners are using this movement for political ends
"You cross from this country to Ireland "and in 24 hours of your arrival in Dublin the Sinn Feis organisation knows all abouty you, why you have come, and, if it has any suspicions, watches you during the whole of your visit. The very waiter in your hotel are most of them Sinn Feiners If they think there is reason to suspect you, they go through your luggage, and if they do to succeed in doing this in your room, it will probably be stolen when you commence your travels. Thus a well-known M.P. was robbed of his bag while getting his ticket for the South of freland in the just as Parnell used the Land Lengue. Dublin terminus. They undoubtedly This agitation is aimed at everybody, thought he had papers in his bag, but whether Irish or English, possessing mors
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Notice is served on the landlord, if he farms the land himself or on his tenants, that on and after a certain day it will be "It is fatal to express any opinion what death to each and all of the unless they ever of current events in Ireland. If you clear out and agres to sell the land on meet a member of the regulir forces travel-whatever terms may be offered. This is no ling alone, he will be in mufti; the King' idle threat. Captain Shaw Taylor," one f uniform is always a mark for a revolver of the best known Galway landlords, who akot. You time your arrival at your de refused to sell his ladd, was warned stination to come within the hours of
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The would be killed on the fifth day. light. Four hot.meets you with a motor He was ambusbed and shot dead car and you perecise he carries several while motoring on the 67th day. In! automatic pistols, On the roads you meet another case, the would-be tenant but few people. Nohody alutes you, nơ
similarly notified landlord who ~body speak to you; The attitude of every.
so declined. They invaded his property, one is unreservedly Hostile. You arrive parcelled it out, dug a grave for him, took your destination before the light fails, for, him to it, sumtioned a priest and n soli... when it does, the police have all withdrawn citor, and gave nim the option of enter to their barrucks and there is absolutely ing into an immediate contract to hand it nu protection" of any sort for any over to them for nothing, or of being passer-by. At night every door in killer rorthwith, in which case the rites the bote is that early and every of the Church would come in handy. He window barred. You sleep with an had, of course. to sign away "practically automatic pistol under your pillow, nb all he poswwwed. Squatting is quite cum- one thinks of stirring abroad before it is mon now in Ireland. since the Sinn Fein- light, and everyone knows that a raiders invariably occupy the land they want, may be carried out at any moment. Io and nobody seems inclined to turn tham the daytime you are warned to be very ont. Cattle-driving used to be done at cafeti i taking twin by yourself. You night, it is now currried on openly, in the are warned strictly to attend to the business daytime, and the police, even if they on which you have come. You are warned know about it, are not strong enough to never to discuss the Irish situation with stophif anyone. And when you have finished your business, you will hardly want telling to clear out of the country as soon as possible.
#* NOT ENOUGH POLICE.
THE CORK MURDER,
ONLY ONE LAW RUNS, **Only one law now runs in Ireland,' from Dublin perous to the West and down to the South--that of the New Irish Re All the classes in Ireland complate public. Its next move will be to refuse bitterly of the absence of protection the pagnient-of-rates-and taxes. Ever There are not enough police. and, frankly, one knows that when there is damage to the police are getting tired of the terrible property in Ireland, claims for compen strain to, which they are subjected. In Sation can be presented to the local autho Tipperary thres polier-men-they always rity to be charged on the local "rates. go in threes-were eling to the local Local authorities are now declining to Sessions to give evidence in a charge collect this money for compensation cases against a man of driving a motor without of any kind; they have warned the ráte a permit. Passing a little wood. 20 men collectors that it is death to try to do so, opened fire on them. Two were killed out and "the public that they will meet with n right, but the third, though badly wound similar a if they pay: Thus whole ed, was able to crawl into the ditch and sections of the community are being ruin. return the fire," after which the assailants: ed, for in Ireland the police rens the darw off. This was at ten o'clock in the barracks and do not own them, and hence morning Needless to say, no assailant the lessees of all the barracks will receive will ever be prosecuted, because none will nothing for the loss of their property. ever be found. The country people know The Repubic is indeed collecting its ow who they are well enough, but it is death taxes, and it is well provided with funds, to yourself to mention anyone's name, even partly collected at home and partly in allude to him by way of suspicion.......... America.It is well armed, though it does not poses a sufficient quantity of ammuni Let me tell you the story of the murder tion to embark on civil war. Unfortu of the Lord Mayor of Cork as it throws nately it seems that the British troops at a strong light-upon Sinn Fein- methods. times sell both their rifles and their am- There are grades in the Sinn Fein ranks munition, since the prices offered are very according to whether a man is an ex-high-from £20 £30. They do mo, not tremist or a moderate, or perhaps an ultra out of any sympathy with the Irish cause, moderate. The Lord Mayor of Cork, who but merely because the money, which is was a Sinn Feiner, well inside the counsels understood to be handled by giris, is a of the party, possessed a list. so graded.fficient lure. Generally speaking, the of the chief Sinn Feiners in the country,Sinn Feiners both fear and hate the He was a moderate man or, at all escuts, soldiers. because "apparently they think be had a high ideal of his position, and that they are better shots and better be did not want-his year's record tarnished | trained. by assassination and bloodshed. Hence,
RECONQUERING - IRELAND?". when one crime occurred, he spoke out Everyone in Ireland agrees that the very freely, and his remarks came to the situation may get very much worse before hotice of the anthorities in Dublin. They is geta any better-some think indeed that were anxious, naturally, to co-operate it has got beyond the stage when it will with him, and inquiries showed that, ever get any better in our hands, pnless although to speak to a policemen in Irewe practically decide to reconquer the land is suffic at to make a man marked greater part of the island proclaim by the Sinn Feiuers, the Lord Mayor martial law throughout, send over more hagiened to know one policeman well. troops and train them much better than Hi name was Murtagh.". A certain they are trained now, and then proceed to number of discussions followed, and it re-establish law and order with a very was seen that the Lord Mayor hadde firm hand. You can introduce, if you finitely made up his mind not to like, your Home Rule-Bill at the same aesciato bimeelf with a policy of asta time, but what good is any such measure sination. At the same time, he did not unless law is maintained? If you "allów- intend to give away the names of those ed Ireland to have a Republic to-morrow extremists he knew. The matter was rein the Centre and South, it would be forred to London, and instructions, were practically Bolshevist, for the Sinn Feiners sent over to Dublin to raid the Lord are Bolshevists without exception, all the Mayor's house at night and seize the younger men, but, curiously enough, by papers. It will be recollected that some no means all of the poorer classes. They Little time ago the Sinn Feiners captured certainly have wonderful organization, the mails sent to Dublin Gastle, and this their spy system is perfect, they have close fact sealed the fate of the Lord Mayor of working arrangements with America, and Cork for in it was one letter dealing with undoubtedly are in touch with extreme the whole affair, None the less, although opinion both in Egypt and in India. But they knew the letter had been stolen, the their whole system is Terrorist, and it is British authorities police and military now being carried to such extremes that, arranged to raid the Lord Mayor's house if law and order. were reasserted....the on a given night at two am, in search of better class people might rally, in its sup the documents. At eight o'clock the same port. As it is, no one has a good word night, Martagh was shot dead 10 the to say for England, since it is held that streets of Cork with eight bullets, and no wo do the wrong thing or the right thing priest could be obtained to naminister the too late, and that we never seem to have last rites,, since they all refused to come a policy by which we intong to stand '
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