Bisbee daily review., 1920-11-19
IRISH TROUBLE
 |S' DESCRIBED
 BY WITNESSES
Three Americans Testify Re- garding Outrages Alleged
 to Have Been Seen in Erin

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S.-Eye wit nesses reports of disturbances in Ire land connected with the movement for Irish independence were given today at the opening hearings of the commission Of the Committee of 100 l Investigating the Irish question. | Four witnesses, including Dennis Morgan, chairman of the town coun- cil of Thurles, Ireland, and three Americans who visited Ireland re- cently-John F. Martin, Green Bay, Wis; Father Michael English of Montana, and Father lambs H. Cot ter, Ircnton, Ohio-were heard by the commission. All expressed sympathy for the Irish independence movement and told of violent events which they had seen and agreed that civil pro- cesses, except of the provisional | Irish repubtc, were virtually at an end under the rule of thk British mil itary forces.
 Morgan said his home was riddled with bullets prior to his arrest and deportation to England without any definite charges being preferred against him. With two hundred oth. CT Irish republican leaders, he said he went oil a hunger strike until they were released He also told of murders" of Irish citizbns by cen stabulary and soldiers, including the black and tam forces
 R:prisaIs Described Father English asserted that Brit ish soldiers had confiscated his ia. per The. military authorities durid ed his protests that he was an Amer ican citizen. he said, and he also told of having witnessed the shoot 1 ing of an. Irishman whose body, he said was beaten into unrecogniZa- ble form
 Father Cotter, a Catholic editor told of the killing of Galway civil ian by British soldier without cause, he said. The soldier, he said
 was slain by another civilian and re prisals against the town followed aI i hour later. Soldiers shot up the streets for several hours,' he said | ThF aged priest added that he lay 1 for an hour and q half under a win dow ledge of his hotel to escape the | flying bullets. The military. he add ed, later set fire tc two houses and | fired into a Galway newspalier plant whose management was friendly tC the republican movement.
 Father Cotter and Martin, a Knights of Columbus official. stated ! that sentiment in Ireland as they | found it was virtually unanimous fol ! independence.
 Religion Not involved "Sympathies Of every one I mel | Catholic and Protestant. were for the republicans" said Father Cotter The belief that neligious prejudices or differences were involved in Ire | land was unfounded, he added There was absolute unanimity oi opinion for home rule" Mir Martin said
 All witnesses said. that civil court | procedure was suspended in Ireland i coroner's inquests prohibited ny the | British government and that the "n ly authority exercised, except for the British military forces. was that oi the Irish republicans.
 1 About 600 soldiers and 400 police are stationed constantly ill Limerick Father Cotter said. Raids through Pennlwell Limerick district were so frequent, he said, that il had beer named the "Penniwel seet6'." He | told of fire started by hand gren- : des ar incendiaries which injured two hundred houses in the Penni well district and said he saw man, marks of tt,Iets and bombs Father Cot.er said he> sDaI!: cigh'
 w9eks in lre:apd last summer. in Cork, he said. sister ci Terence MacSwiney showed him a dun-dun
 bullet which had been fired at her | but missed
 Tells of Shooting
 Nights in Cork are hideeus with tie shots of the military said Fla
 ther Cotter. He and Father Englist
 told also of seeing intoxicated sol diers firing their arms in the streets
 In the examination of Morgan 1 Frank. P. Walsh and Dudley Field
 MalorIe, counsel for the commission
 for Irish independence participated
 but Frederick c. Howe, chairman Senator Walsh. of Massachusetts
 and other members of the investigat ing commission. questiontd the Am
 erican witnesses. It was made cleal
 by Senator Walsh that all of tht
 witnesses were summoned by tho
 commission which pays their exEens
 es without relation to any other CT | ganization in the country.
 In opening the hearing Chairmar Howe said the commission was tC
 conduct an ''ifpartial inquiry" into
 all the facts, both from Irish anc
 English sources and later send {
 committee to Ireland for further in quiry.
 The hearings here are expected {,