Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-20

Washington. Nov. ls.-CBy the A P.) More eyewitness tales of violence in Ireland and accounts of social and economic developments resulting from the effort for Irish independence were re- ceiSed today by the commission of the committee of one hundred investigating the Irish commission. The comaiissi)n tlien adjourned over Thanksgiving Io re- sune It's inquiry probably the first weeK
 in December.
 Personal accounts of the killing of citizens and police last September at T;aibriggan and the burning and lOecint uf homes and stores there and at Ga.- way and other Irish towns were related by John Derham, town commissioner of Balbriggan. and Americans who toured the country recently. including Mrs. Wi;liam A King of Ironton. Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hackett of New York A copy of the report made by the Quaker commission from Great Britain, which investigated Irish affairs recently was submitted by Paul J. Furnas of New York, representing the Society of Frierds. Terrorism" was the term applied by all of today's witnesses 10 the military rule in Ireland. Mir. Derham said the black and tans' bayonetted ten citizens of Balbriggan and burned twenty-five houses during a raid in reprisal for the shooting of two officers by unknown per sons. He said he wa shimself beaten with bayonet butts and otherwise mel- treated. No compensation, he said, was offered by the British government for property destroyed by the military A picture of the military rule. main tained with armed lorries and tanks in Cork. Limerick Dublin and other citi-s. cafI f f+ street shooting were nightly occurrences. Mir HackeJt.f associate editor of Ths New Republic. said that magistrates ar { civil police had resigned "in shoals ait: | that the people generally were sub'tif- \ ting their civil and other controversies -o the republican courts. Barring only the nominal authority of Dublin Castle. he said there would be little British rule n Ireland except of the military forces. | Eighty per cent. of the people are for Sim Fein," said Mir. Hackett. who stated that he always had sympathized with the Sim Fein movement.
 The judicial administration of the Sim
 Fein officials, the witness stated includes | formal, althaugh secret "triaP' of police
 constabularly and soldiers charged w.ts
 killing Irish citizens
 l .Re sponsible Sim Fein leaders. tel@ me. said MT ttachett, tnal lHtse hiii' ] ings of policemen were an absolute nee
 essary act of justice. most of them nav | ing committed actual murder"
 | Conditions in Ireland are working UT
 to massacre" Mir. Hackett said. Hs
 added that many of the black and tans'
 were ex-convicts and other desperadoes.
 "The English arc pursuing policy oi l oppression and assassination" he con | .inued. and making no effort to bring |:
 book those guilty, among them military | forces of lawlessness."
 The British policy regarding restitution
 of property destroyed by the military i' to impose assessments uuon citizens o the community where violence has occur red, the witness said. He added tha tSir Arthur Griffith had told him that ir
 September there were about 15O.Oo' troops in Ireland. and he estimated th' number of police killed within the las
 few years at about 120.
 | Before the world war. Mfr. Racket stated. British officials permitted Ulste revloutionists to import arms from Ger many without hiudrance. but baked
 with military force. attempts at simila
 imDortations into southern Ireland