The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-25

members of the Royal Irish Constabuary-the | Constabulary is a branch of the military forces. After the arrival of the delegates in Ireland they conferred with President de Valera as to the places which they should visit, and Mount joy jail, in the City of Dublin, was selected, for the reason that it contained a large number of political prisoners many of them men of the highest character and standing They made their demand to visit the jail through the Dublln municipal authorities, but the Governor of the prison resident of England who had been in office but few weeks refused them admission. Tt explained to Sir John Irwin, chairman of the Visiting Justices of Mountjoy Prison, that the Commission travelling on diplomatic pass ports and was investigating conditions in Ire land, partly at Ithe solicitation of the Prime Minister. With this explanation, Sir John IT, win who is in supreme authority of the jail, overruled the decision of the Governor, and we admitted to Mountjoy'
 After describing the alleged incidents of their tour the Commissioners sum up their conclus- ions follows:
 Upon the basis of what witnessed selves well statements of men and women of unimpeachable integrity, we make the follow ing specific charges
 1-Within the past few months at least 10 citizens have been killed by soldiers and consta- bles under circumstances which in majority of the cases coroners' juries found to be wiful mur- der under the laws of England; the last man having been murdered in this way less than month ago In all of these cases the perpetra- tors of the crimes have gone unpunished.
 2.-Hundreds of men and women have been confined for months in the viest prisons, with out any charges being preferred against them.
 3-At least five men have died the result of atrocities perpetrated upon them, while in prison, the post-mortem examination in some of the disclosing marks of violence upon the bodies of the victims
 4.-Prisoners confined in narrow cells with hands handcuffed behind them day and night. In this condition they are fed by jail attendants They permitted no opportun- ity of answering calls of nature, and are com pelled to lie in their clothing befoued by hu- excrement for days at time.
 5.-Persons are confined in cells which are not large enough for one man They are not provided with beds hunks of any kind, but are compelled to sleep upon the bare floors. There toilet facilities receptacles to contain the human offal which necessarily accu muates upon the floors where men com pelled to sleep in the filth night after night
 6.-The food is insufficient and unwhole some. Prisoners, and women, pelled to live for days upon water and poorly baked sour and stale bread
 7.-Hundreds of men and women have been discharged from jail with impaired constitutions, and are in many cases incurable invalids result of their treatment.
 8-During the past winter and spring streams of icecold poured upon men confined in jail and they compelled to lie all night on cold floors in unheated cells in their wet &Pthing. Many of them were afterward re- feved to outside hospitals suffering with pneu- Amonia
 g. Police and soldiers habitually per Emitted to enter the cells where political pris oners are confined and to beat them with their clubs.
 1O.-Solitary confinement in most horrible insane asylums, rendered maniacs by their treat ment.
 certain jails have been kept without any food whatever for days at time
 12-The right of privacy longer exists in Ireland The homes of the people being constantly invaded by armed men and the oc- cupants including delicate women and young children, cruelty beaten and otherwise matreat-
 13.-The children of suspected Republicans, many Of tender years are kidnapped, and their parents kept in ignorance of their whereabouts for weks.
 14.-Women and children of refinement and re- spectability are arrested without warrant and, in company of rough and brutal soldiers trans ported to distant parts of Ireland and England where they are confined in jail with the lowest prostitutes, some of whom suffering from Vile diseases and are compelled to the same .olet Iaclhtes' and thus expose themselves to the danger of infection
 15..The right of private property longer exists in Ireland. Places of business of Repub- licans are invaded by soldiers and constables, fixtures destroyed and property confiscated with out compensation. In many cases the owners of such businesses and property utterly impov- erished.
 l6.-Heads of hundreds of families have been jailed or deported, leaving dependent women and children without of subsistence and ren- dered objects of public charity.
 In-Men and women on mere suspicion of haVlng Republican sympathies being taken from their houses and arrested upon the streets and highways of Ireland; deported to England or confined in jas in remote places while their distracted families are kept in ignorance of their whereabouts
 We witnessed while in Ireland brutal and unprovoked assault by English Colonel and crowd or soldiers upon the person of Professor John MacNeil Professor MacNeil is member Of the faculty of the National University is an educator and publicist of the highest type member of parliament, and occupies relatively the same position in Ireland that William How ard Taft Nicholas Murray Butler does fin the United States"
 With Delegate Grigsby his trail Judge Wicker