The Irish standard., 1919-11-08

Many Officials are Anxious to Have
the Terror Open.
BY Robert ]. Anderson
The British militarists in Ireland
are at present creating an atmosphere
favorable to the policy indicated by
Chief Secretary Short three days
after the result of the plebiscite was
declared in December last 1t will be
remembered that Mr.. Short stated
then that the Irish question would be
settled peacefully or bloodily within
six months"
The failure to settle it bloodily with
in the period indicated was due to the
fact that British interests elsewhere
would be served by delay. Prepare
tions have practically been completed
and America is the only country that
required attention. It is evident from
the developments in Ireland and the
dispatches reporting the British
spokesmen there that there is abund-
ant confidence in the ability of Sir
William Tyrrell, who came here with
Tabetic Grey to make America among
other things safe for the massacre in
Ireland.
That the policy of blood-letting in
dicated by Mr.. Shortt is still the Of
ficial policy of the British in Ireland
i So 1oiv, hxy h0 Prifich die.
patches. For instance, in cablegram
of October IL from Dublin we are in
formed that:
"At the chief secretary's Office here
it was declared tonight that since
May 1, there have occurred 1928
'outrages.' These include 16 murders,
IA victims being soldiers, policemen
or officials; 81 cases of shooting of
persons, and 478 raids. All are Of
ficially attributed to the Sim Fein
movement"
If the British newsgatherers and
officials paid as much attention to
crime in England as they do to
crime" and "outrages" in Ireland,
they would find more crime in one
month in England than in a whole
year in Ireland. The greater number of
crimes committed in Ireland can be
traced to the British army of occupa-
tion there. However, the proper
atmosphere and the necessary excuses
for the holocaust must be created In
order that England can kill the citi-
zens of the Republic of Ireland from
lofty motives.
A dispatch from London on October
Is is of the nature of the one quoted
above, and is as follows:
Speaking at Wellasey, Cheshire,
Field Marshal Viscount French, Lord
lieutenant and Governor General of
Ireland, made bitter attack upon the
Slim Gein government of Ireland. He
said:
1.-The self-constituted, illegal and
insane Sim Fein government is pos
sessed of great secret army called
the Irish Volunteers" to which are
attached assassins whose business it
is to murder police and soldiers who
question their DEGREES in any COM
munity. The people are frightened
into screening the offenders, and
courageous efforts on the part of the
police are abortive.'
Though intended for British propa-
ganda, the above has some Irish
propaganda as well. Viscount French
admits that there is Sim Fein gov
ernment, as he terms it, in Ireland.
His epithets, insane and illegal"
cannot obscure the big fact that a
government exists. Not only is there
! government, but there is an army.
The fact that Viscount French brands
that army as one of assassfns will
only cause the citizens of the Re-
public of Ireland to smile. Susan
: Mitchell, 10 years ago put the position
regarding the military police and the
citizens In a nutshell in few verses
on the murder by the police of two
civilians. She wrote:
"It's duty when peeler shoots.
"The things on other lines.
"It's . murder when q peeler's
. shot"
'That is the British view, but the
Irish people do not at present measure
events in Ireland by an English tape.
But viscount French's object Is to
justify in advance the. blood-letting.