The Washington times., 1920-11-06
Fight IN DARK
WITH POLICE
Losing Battle Staged In Small
Town Twenty Miles
From Cork.
IRISH LEADER ISSUES Def
Charges English Government
With Encouraging Terrorism
Worse Than Germans.
IRISH LEADER ISSUES Def

LONDON, Nov. 1.-Two Kindred
Slim Feiners were captured near
Macrosm during the night IN N
encounter between police and sol
diers on one aide and Sim Feinors
on the other, said q Centrll News
dispatch. from Dublin today. IL
rave no further details. Macreom
Is twenty miles west Of Cork.
DUBLIN, Nov. 6.-Oespite the
announcement by Sir Hamar
Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, that stern punishment II be-
ing administered to stop reprisal at
tacks by the auxiliary police (the
Black and Tans), Arthur Griffith,
Sinn Fein member Of Parliament
and acting president Of the Irish re-
public, today charged the British
government with full responsibility
for the "atrocities" that have fol-
lowed the. funeral Of Terence Nc
Swiney.
SAYS Hugs oUTsTRiPP1D.
Griffith acchsed- the British police
aHo SotuterS o1 o11VtfiBntAutuc9s9 ~ lhAs
surpassed che outragss OF the Ger-.
mans In. Belgium during the war. Hts
statement In full foliows:
The English Parliament, by refus.'
Ing an inquiry into the atrocities its
governments forces are committing
in Ireland, convicts the British gov
ernment Of instigating and directing
them. VI
'"rhe attempt Of the English gov
ernment's spokesmen to pretend that
these atrocities are reprisals can de-
ceive no one who has been in Ireland.
The Atrocities now being perpetrated
plan made by the English ministry
some time ago In the vain hope Of
breaking the spirit, and the viii Of
the Irish nation.
WILL, OF PEOPLE I0NoRnD.
"rhe constitutional expression Of
the win Of the Irish nation registsrsd
met by an arbitrary decree from the
English government declaring the
duly elected representatives Of Ire-
land an illegal body and banning the
national and political organizations
which three-fourths Of the people Of Ire
land supported.
"A policy OF repression, based upon
nocturnal raids, arrests. ana impris-
onments. was pursued toward the
peoples representatives and the pso.
pie themselves. The restraint with
which this policy was endured ala not
avail to abate its vfgors and. a. time
passed. repression became more bru-
tai. II was calculated and provoca-
tive. The press that exposed and
condemned the evil policy was sup
pressed or threatened with suppress
sion. Public meeting was interdicted.
and all the organic means by which
a nation expresses itself were sought
to be stifled,
Political spies. whose business Il
was to denounce mon for their opin-
ions. and agents provocateurs whose
work II was to instigate outrage
were scattered through the country.
Consequences that Inevitably flowed
from the effort to treat the lawfully
registered vote of the people a. .
crime and the electors and their rep
resentatives rs criminals were inl
turn used as an excuse before the
world for sacking Irish towns and
Villages, the destruction Of Irish fac
tories and business houses, the burn
ing of Irish homes, homestsads, and
harvests. and the murder Of Irish
citizens. until today throughout the
major part. Of ireland = system Of
terrorism and destruction surprising
anything alleged against the Ger
mans In Belgium In the late war II
established and carried on by forces
OF the English government
ELEVEN DEFINITE CHARGES.
'Under this system the following
are being perpetrated:
SuD Assassination Of Irish efti-
sens.
.(1) TIE bprning OF IrtsA fac
tories, crenmerier, and ksrvests.
~taJ Leeting - private property.
"(O ssckinE % towns snd VII
lsges.
"(s) Nocturnal raids, arrests, ana
impvfscnments.
~te) Murdereus ASSAULTS sn
clergymen and laymen.
s(D TsvtvrinG 81 political pris-
oners.
"(N stepvsse Of insueess On
murdered lvtshusep.
"ts) Uspulsien Of workrss frsm
their emppoywent.
s(to) Avming 81 Orsngemen on
the north eosst Of ireland.
"uf) Payne, Z &C Orsusemen ~
peiieewen -pua the ipciteaent % re.
brscus, assse-sisns.
Our eourtry ls In agony. but
can say that the spirit OF freedom
will never be rooted out BY miit
tsrism."