The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-05
Ninety-Nine Police Headquar-
ters Attacked Over Easter.
More Than 500 Irish Rebels Ar.
rested Sunday.
RAIDS ALL CAREFULLY PLANNED
In West ireland Army OF 1900
Is Seizing Farms.
Tax Offices at Cork Burned
Mob flinders Firemen.

Dublin. April 5.-More than 500
Sim F'einers mad been arrested in a
new series of raids by police and mill
tary following the Easter uprising, ac-
cording to estimates at Dublin Cas-
tie today
Total police barracks burned and
bombed in the Easter uprising thru
out Ireland. stood at SO at p. M.
In Dublin. troops were confined to
their barracks Officers had orders
TO be prepared for any eventuality.
The night passed quietly.
The south of Ireland still was under
virtual martial law.
e North Ireland was completely cut
off from telegraphic communication
ed Dublin, Derry, Cork, Limerick.
Newry, Thurles and Dundalk Two
British warships were lying in Kings
town harbor, few miles from Dublin.
Arc Selling Farms.
An unusual and ominous movement
was reported from Vest ireland.
where bands estimated at more than
1900 men marched thru the country
and confiscated thousands of acres of
land in Counties Roscommon and Gal
way. driving off owners of estates. Ten
grazing tenants were forced to leave
one estate.
/ Officials at Dublin Castle today es-
timated the damage to property in the
Easter outbreak at more than $500. 1000
/ which, they said, the taxpayers would
be forced to pay. A number of bridges
were blown up.
! The Sim Fein flag was still flying
or the admiralty pier at Queenstown
/ toNay. Halyards had been cut and the
flag pole creased.
/ Official reports up to early today
showed IL police barracks and 22 in
come tax offices were burned. 1t was
believed the final total would be con-
siderably higher.
Raids Carefully Planned.
Reports continued to arrive describ-
ling fresh outbreaks. There was every
indication the raids were carefully
planned by central organization. Of
ficials at Dublin Castle admitted the
raids had struck at the basis of gov
crnmental machinery. Destruction OF
! the tax records. they said. would make
enforcement of the tax law most diff
/ cult.
! Today's reports showed the out
/ the Belfast district. The city was iso
lated when wires were cut.
Armed mobs entered the Grand
Central hotel, housing the government
departments of pension and labor. de-
stroying many documents and settling
fire to the building. The blaze was
extinguished.
Police barracks were burned in
C1ougl, Lough Brickiand. Rostrevor.
Trillick. Castle Townshend, Skib-
! bereen and other centers
Laughed at Police.
| Extensive raids were carried out in
Cork. Firemen, attempting to extin-
guish the burning income tax office
were hampered by crowds which cut
the fire hose, laughing at the efforts
/ of the police and troops to aid the
firemen.
The Irish Times stressed the diff
culties facing Sir Hamar Greenwood.
the new chief secretary for Ireland in
Premier Lloyd Georges cabinet. The
new secretary is confronted with "A
deliberate, far-reaching conspiracy to
make the government ungoYernable
by the British" the newspaper said.
THE government is gravely hanpered
at this critical moment by q. home
rule bill which is heaping coal on the
fires of revolution" +"