The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-22
ENGLAND To
STRENGTHEN
IRISH FORCE
Sending of Additional Troops
to Ireland Being Seriously
Considered at War Office
This Afternoon.
MURDERS IN DUBLIN
(Ry Associated Press)

DUBLIN, Nov. 22-Twenty-six per.
sons are dead and 20 are lying in hos
pitals as a result of Sundays orge of
assassinations and the wholesale
shooting in Croke Park, where sol
diers fired on the crowds which had
gathered to witness a football game
between the Dublin and Tipperary
teams.
Dublin's apprenhensions that repris-
ais would follow last night proved un-
founded and it is believed that govern
ment reports of three or four riots in
the city after midnight were due to
the cutrages near Dublin.
Aside from military activities and
searchings, including Mansion House.
armored cars passing through the
streets and the fact that all thorough
ares leading out Of the city were
; closely watched, Dublin and it's vicin-
| ity were quieter today. 1t appeared
! that yesterdays outbreak, following
the lines of other Irish disturbances,
was not being sustained.
The shooting in Croke Park is de-
! Tended by the authorities on the
ground that they had reason to be-
lieve that men from the provinces
had participated in yesterdays mur-
! ders and were present at the football
match. The design Of the militaries,
/ it was said, was to prevent their exit
and search each individual as he
passed out through the turnstiles.
LONDON, Nov 22.-The sending of
additional troops to Ireland is being
seriously considered, it was stated at
the war office this afternoon.
London was waiting anxiously and
! fearfully this morning for further
news from Dublin following the re-
| ports of yesterdays horrors, but up to
early afternoon only meagre dispatch
es had been received. Reports to the
! Irish office from Dublin. which were
in hand by noon, said three or four
! unidentified persons had been killed
in that city late last night
Several policemen had been killed in
| other parts of Ireland, the Irish office
announced. A brief telephone mes
sage at eight o'clock this morning. had
reported the city at least temporarily
quiet Then came a gap in the reports,
| up to the noon hour, but whether this
! indicated a censorship was not known.
Meager reports during the night
stated that shooting was going on as
a sequel to yesterdays assassinations
and the subsequent clash between the
military and crowd at Croke park.
Murder Stalking.
! Murder stalked through the streets
! Of Dublin yesterday, and at night fall
| the meagre reports received here indi-
! Gated that at least 25 persons had been
killed and upwards of 100 more or less
/ seriously wounded. The days disor-
! ders, which added an appalling chap
| ter to the tragedy that has been enact
! ed in Ireland for the past several
months. began with the apparently
deliberate shooting of fourteen men,
| who for the most part were military
officers.
During the afternoon. Irish constab-
| ulary, Or "black and tans" raided
Croke park, where a football game was
in progress and in the melee which re-
! suited at least ten persons were killed.
! Communication with Ireland was
seemingly interrupted last evening
but the latest advices declared that
! fires had broken out in various parts
! in the city. Shooting again began in
! the streets just before midnight and
! it was asserted a number of persons
were killed Yesterdays murderous
outbreak in Dublin produced in This
! city a sensation comparable to that
! which followed the Easter rebellion of
1916.
/ Thought Last Outburst
| Recent declarations by members of
the British ministry. to the effect that
their policy was succeeding, that out
RACES were decreasing in number and
that the authority of the law was be-
ing reestablished, had been hopefully
welcomed by the general public. The
people today recalled with astonish-
I ntt
fortnight ago by Premier Lloyd George,
who said: UNLESS | am mistaken, we
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