The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-11-02
WOMAN DESCRIBES
SCENES IN IRELAND
80 AcK AND TANs" RECRUIT
'B pn FROM WORST OF cRIMI-
f ED VISIT TO BEDSIDE OF
MnvOR MACSWINEY.

- EVFLAND, Ohio Inc scum
u E+i-a,;sh prisons is being. turned
OF E' y ri reinforce the Royal Irish
ioos Sss+obnlary and spread terrorism in
Ireland. .ho window in ireland
20 risk death from hand gren--
nlea4GI rng through by the Black and
la aus IEsn,oIand is doing her best to pro-
- leland into open rebellion, which
EoNI cooler heads are managing to pre-
vent" o the latest word
brought back from ireland by MIS-,
w Tto5 King, of Cleveland, a former
CTIsveIand school principal
w Mrs. King showed a picture OF the
,ord MAYOR, taken on the htty7hrst
Sov Of his hunger strike. Just snap
a OS9t taken with small kodak, it
'sh ,o, the lord mayor, emaciated be-
snoT belief. propped up in bed. 1t was
y yenar With the kodak of Mrs. Kings
G.tlo daughter, who is attending a
,,,''r school in county Cork, Ire
la'u' Tells of Visit to Prison.
Describing the taking of the picture,
Mrs. King said:
Ni "Tbpre were scores of policemen,
10th mounted and on foot, surround
mo the prison the day | was there. 1T
was rumored that the lord mayor was
nearly dead and the British were TAX
mo no chance of being caught una
wares m9 with an outbreak. The lord
mayor was lying there on cot IN pr1s-
On white and frai1, so he didn't seem
mich more than boy of 8 years. I'm
der a strict promise to Annie Mac
Cwinev that | would never allow a
nrint of the picture to be given to a
newspaper she took my camera and
snapped her brother.
His mind clear as bell, he an
swered all the questions that she ask
ed him without the slightest hesitan-
~. while | stood in the background.
Then he inquired anxiously as to the
condition of the other hunger strikers
who are imprisoned at Cork. . Tell
them III stick to the end Ireland
must never give up" he said and smil-
ed a wan little smile as his sister
stroked his brow.
Then nurse came i'll with an arm
ed guard, and we were told to leave.
Mrs. King then plunged into a de-
scription of conditions in lerland as
she found them. She said
Those who have not been IN Ire
land cannot realize the conditions ex-
isting there. | did not dream that mis-
erv and suffering could exist in a So
called civilized country.
Sees Effort to Force War.
Every effort is being made by
England to drive the Irish into open
rebellion and state OF war.
The curse of Ireland today is the
ROYAL Irish Constabulary, better
known locally as the Black and Tans:
This organization is made up of
the scum of English prisons, murder
ers, thieves. Criminals of the lowest
type are set free upon their promise
that they will join the Black and Ians.
Many times l sat in the dark, tor a
lighted window means hand grenade
in Ireland, and listened to the battle
cry OF the Black and Tans as they
spread terror through the Irish viii
lage Here it is:
I'VE are the boys of the Bulldog
breed. Come out, you Irish swine.
"Reprisals? That is terrible word,
and have seen it in its worst forms,
in actual execution. | arrived in Gal
way the nearest town to America, at
Has one night. In the station, with
out any warning, number OF the
Black and Tan forces drew his re-
yolycr and began to shoot into the
crowd, which was surging forward to
get the latest papers from London.
He killed one man and injured two
before he himself was shot down. At
that morning the troops were firing
from outside the windows of my hotel.
In the dark | tore up letters from the
MaCSwiney girls and others that
might be seized if the hotel were
searched
Women Leaped For Life.
Two young men, who had not been
near the scene of the shooting, were
dragged from their beds and killed III
reprisal that night. The home of one
OF them was set fire to after it had
been drenched with petrol and his
mother and a woman, who had just
arrived from America, locked in their
rooms The next morning | saw the
runs of the house and talked to the
women, who had leaped from the win
.doWs to save their lives.
I'm order that the news of the re-
PrlSals might not spread, the troops
destroyed the newspaper office OF the
town. watched the manager of the
paper, however, as he went back to
his wrecked Office, collected the scat
tered type and managed to get enough
which was spread boardcast through
the town. Did it have an infammatory
headline or was it incendiary in tone?
On the contrary, it urged his fellow
citlzens to maintain their calm, recited
the details of the atrocities in detail,
and was headed Keep Cool
., Il have the names of the victims in
inns reprisal and am ready to produce
them if necessary"