Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-05
HOMES ARE BURNED
IN IRISH REPR|SALS
Uniformed Men Operate Sim
iIarIy in Three Separate
Localities.
BY WILLIAM II. BRAYDEN.
~ Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily New
Conyricht 1870

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
. Copyright. 1920.
!. DUBLIN, Ireland, November 5.-The
towns of Granard, Tralee and Bally-
mote, in three separate provinces.
/ have in the last forty-eight hours
been devastated by men in govern
ments uniforms avenging the murder
or KIDNAPPING of police. They did not
ravage at large. but went straight to
! the homes of well known Sim Feiners
] in supposed sympathy with the as
sassins. The methods were similar in
the three towns, the attackers using
F! crowbars. hatchets and bombs in de-
molishing the houses. which they fired
! with petroleum.
i Assisted Irish Volunteers.
| This revenge policy did not involve
iall the crown forces. for in Tralee SOL
diers from. the barracks under a regu-
| lar officer assisted the Irish volun-
teers to eXtinguish the flames lit by
mote the ordinary police did the same,
though the incendiaries were their
iown collea CUES Furnishing the murder
of one of their serseants.
/ painful feature of all the cases
was that the damage fell upon many
perfectly innocent people. 1t was not
! intended to injure them, but their
houses caught fire from those burned
on purpose. The days damages are es-
timated at 100000 (normally So
! 000, 000). Generally attacks on towns
! have not encountered any defense. but
after Granard had been sacked the
Sim Feiners, anticipating the sacking
! of the adjoining village of Ballins1ee,
LAY in wait and fired on the approach
! ing military lorries. A sharp fight
ensued and the soldiers are said to
have lost three men killed and six
wounded
Political Crimes Diminish.
| Though ordinary observers consider
that things are becoming steadily worse.
the government believes that it is max
ing progress and diminishing the num-
Der of political crimes. But it admits
that the guerilla warfare is growing
| f1ercer and that the assassinations of
policemen are unchecked.
| responsible castle official declared
| today that the Sim Fein claim that am
was not tenable, for the conditions in
every case were overwhelmingly favor
able to the attackers, who had the ad-
vantage of numbers. surprise and con-
! cealment. and that the soldiers who es-
capped seldom were in a position to re-
! taliate by a counter attack. The official
view is that these ambushes do not differ
from ordinary aSSassinations while muir
ders of individual policement go on with
out the need being felt for disguise or
excuse.
Irish Debate In Parliament.
LONDON. November I'm the house
of commons today T. p. O'Connor
raised a debate by attacking what he
described as the authorities policy of
frightfulness in Ireland. which. he de-
clared. was adding new battalions to
the Sim Fein army and besmirching
Englands good name.
Joseph Devlin, Belfast. and other
members strongly denounced the re-
prisals in Ireland.
Sir Hamar Greenwood. chief secre-
tary for Ireland. replying. gave sta
tistics showing that the military and
police were not faltering in their en-
deavors to maintain the strictest dis
cipline. Nine constables were under
arrest. two of them charged with
murder. Gen. SIR Neyil MacReady,
commander of the forces. had in
CURED into every charge against the
troops. and disciplinary action had
been taken in ten cases. Trials had
been fordered in other cases. including
seven men for completely I'm the de-
struction of property at Mallow
CORK, November 4.-Deputy Lord
Mayor O'Callaghan has been elected
lord mayor in succession to the late
Terence MacSwiney.