The Washington herald., 1920-11-22

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day. vast quickly followed by
the shooting to death OF n boy
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q passing lorry.
LONDON. Nov. 21.-The seething
tumult that has been Ireland for
the past few months came to a head
over the week end
Messages coming through an ap-
parent censorship speak of scores
of dead and many more of wounded.
Judging from the news at hand it
is the explosion of the Black and
Tan volcano.
The outstanding incidents of the
carnage are:
1. The killing of at least ten and
the wounding of seventy others
when armored cars loaded with SOL
diers invaded a crowd of fifteen
thousand at an Irish Gaelic football
game.
2. Great fires raging in the docks
and coal yards with large ships
blazing in the harbor of Dublin.
Desperate street Fishtins.
3. Desperate street hghting be-
tween citizens and soldiers adding
hourly to the list of killed and
wounded.
srl .--t-.sz - D,.kl;n b., Cir
Neville Macready, British command
er-in-chief in Ireland. who has
placed a Gordon about the city cut
ting off all train service. -.
& Aftacks by Iyish vo1unteers IN
the south side of Bubiin where auto
mobiles loaded with Black and Tans
shot down people promiscuously.
6. The attempted burning in Cork
OF one of the largest dry goods es-
tablishments in ireland. the former
place Of employment of both Lord
Mayor MacSwiney a~d Lord Mayor
.O'Callaghan. the pr st executive.
Z. Invasion OF ,el in Dub
lin by the soldiers. two un-
Identified officers wet killed and
four persons were wounded.
s. In a chapel at Galway lies the
body of a priest, Father Griffith.
who was kidnapped last Sunday and
since found near Galway with a
bullet in his temple.
Bloodiest Fight since 1915.
ireland has experienced the blood
lest visitation since the 1916 revo-
luton. Today and yesterday there
was waged in the streets of Dublin
a bloody warfare. openly, between
. Vrf~ Drff e
ish soldiery.
So heavy were the casualties that
it is impossible yet to make an ac-
curate estimate, but the latest mes
sages from the bullet-riddled capi-
tai OF ireland tell of scores of dead
and the hospitals filled with
wounded as a sequel to the intensive
military raid of Friday. Saturday
! and today.
Numerous parts of Dublin suffered
from the warfare which opened at
/ 3 o'clock Friday morning when a
group OF Republicans attacked the
residence of Black and Tans in
Mount street. The slain in this dis
trict numbered IL. Most of them
were oficers and one a civilian.
Two others were killed at the
Gresham Hotel
Fierce Fire mt Docks.
simultaneously with the attack on
the hotel, a huge fire broke out in
| the docks and coal yards, setting
| fire to a large ship which is burn
/ ing brightly. Desperate street fight
ing followed all day adding every
hour to the list of killed and
wounded.
Immediately after the battle open
ed the isolation of Dublin was or
dered by Sir Neville Macready. The
most serious battle occurred yes
iterday afternoon when armored cars
manned by soldiers dashed into a
} crowd of $4,000 people at Croke
Park, Dublin, where a Gaelic foot
ball game. was being played by
teams from Tipperary and Dublin.
Armed forces also accompanied
the armored cars and as they in
ivaded the football field the immense
crowd was seized with panic and
tried to escape. Shots were fired in
all directions During the stampede
several were shot dead and hundreds
/ wounded by gun fire.
The hospitals are full.
l. An Trains Searched.
| Alarmed by the extreme serious
ness of the situation, the authorities
ordered the cessation of all railroad
trains from Dublin, beginning at
] o'clock today. All incoming trains
are being carefully searched ane
the police and military are max
| ing raids throughout the city. hold'
| ing up automobiles and motorcycles
At the Hotel Gresham the dead In
cluded Capt. Mccormick and civ
ilian named Wild. Two officers
| who are unidentified, were killed
and four persons wounded in an
1 other battle on Pembroke road.
| Three men named Thomas
| Maclean and Caldow were
a house on Northampton road.
! Capt. Newberry Of the BLACK and
Tans," was shot dead at his resi-
dence on lower Baggot street
James o'Neil. who had been tried
by court martial with Patricl
Blake for the murder of a police
man and, like Blake. acquitted. was
! found on the roadside near Limerick
today, his body riddled with bullets
Notices were posted by the mill
tsry In Cork today that II a con-
stable. who is alleged to have been
Kidnapped, IL not returned within
| tHenty-four hours. the cittzens Of