Bisbee daily review., 1920-12-29
BRITISH LABOR LEADERS PLAY
 RULE IF ERIN
Government Is Scathingly De- nounced for Manner of
 Fighting Sim Fein
PRE MFR DENOUNCED
Royal Irish Ccnstabulary Is Branded As Filled With
 Incorporate Officers

LONDON, Dec 2S.-A scathing de nunciation Of government methods in Ireland and strong expression on the futility of coerCile methods to suppress either the Sim Fein move ment or the Republican army, occu. pyisg for the most part the report cl the labor commission which recently visited Ireland tC study conditions there.
 The report deals with all aspects of the present situation and the sen timent in Ireland. as well as a spe- citic study of reprisalS. It shows in. cidentally that an appeal to Premier Lloyd George signed by Arthur Hen derson and William AdamSon. as late as December p. had failed to bring response to the commissions de- sire to institute an unofficial truce'' so that steps toward peace might be taken.
 Declaring the Irish republican army to he formidable. because iu- tangible. the report says that if 1t were concentrated as an army it could easily be defeated and il exists only because il has the sympathy and support of the vast mass of the pop ulation
 Official Reports Hidiculed
 So great has been the DrOvocation by the crown forces that so per cent of Irish men and women" tha report continues. now regard the shooting of policemen and throwing of bombs at lorries with the same philosophical resignation that Mir LlCvd George displays toward arson and pillage and the shooting of civilians in the pres ence of their wives and children. The destruction of creameries. etc, only serves to stimulate recruiting by in creasing the numbers of desperate men"
 The report declares thar in he black and tans and auXiliaries. the government has created wea 2on which it cannot wield: it has libecat- ed forces which it is noi at present able to dominate"
 The report ridicules the official contentious that Sim Feiners the m- selves burned and destroyed proper ty in towns or markedly Sim Fein sympathies, as unreasonable an.l in deed stupid" minute is given of all cases investigated One in.ereSt- ing point is that in the case of the Croke Park tragedy when on NoYem- Der 2l numerous persons were Killed or injured at a football game. the re port absolves the authorities from anything in the nature of "premed- itated reprisals."
 The report testifies to the diffiCul- ty of gathering information owing to the terrorism existing, eye witnesses being threatened even with death if they dNulge what they have seen.
 Cadet Activities Played
 It describes minutely the character and organization of all the crown forces, Dealing with the cOnstabu- lary, it says:
 We feel compelled to express the opinion that by no means negligible proportion of the Royal Irish Con- stabulary as al present constituted are men of 'ntemperate habit utterly unsuited to their duties"
 The strongest condemnation, how ever is reserved for the auXiliaries who. it is declared. evidently enjoy special and powerful protection
 It asserts that wherever reprisals have been scientifically carried out. it has been almost invariably by de tachments of cadet auxiliaries-men possessed of ability and education, and inflamed by political passion who brook no interference from other crown forces and do not seem to rec ognize even the authority of Dublin Castle"
 The report voices the appreciation felt by the labor party in England when it says with reference to this force it is a class weapon which is being forged in Ireland and could be used in England