The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-12-13
CALLS BURNED CITY
A ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Rector of Catholic University
Den0unces Action of British
Military Chiefs.

When the news Of the burning Of
Cork by the Black and Tans yester-
day reached Catholic University to-
day. both the student body and the
faculty were greatly incensed. Pray
ers were offered for the suffering
citizens of the Irish city at all the
masses at the university.
RECTOR FLAYS BRITISH.
Right Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, rec
tor of the university. denouncing the
action of the British -orces in burn
ing the city OF Cork, said;
"The burning OF Cork surprasses
in grim horror and fierce injustice
the crime OF Louvain. The little
academic city OF the Belgians was
given over to arson and pillage in the
name of the German empire. and un-
der direction of the German military
forces. whereupon England reused
the entire world with her passionate
denouciation of the crime of the ages.
Now she has herself committed
super-crime. not in the name of
any authorized government agency.
but in the name. spirit AMI priEniple
of anarchy. Maliciously the Eugi: sh
Parliame mt squints at its own agents.
clothed by it with omnipotence and
irresponsibility, and encourages Il 81
shevist practices that tomorrow Will
come home to London with sanguin-
AIRY interest. In as far as the loot of
London surpasses that of Cork. ard
the red-eyed rage Of its dumb masses
can work out in deeds of horror that
will make the ashes of Cork look Ike
a playground.
BETTER TO DIE THAN YIELD.
eff this be the liberty that the
English government would force upon
Ireland. who can blame the immense
ma jority of tho Irish people for 70
jecting II. backs to the wall Better
a thousand times to die by the bullets
of English anarchy in defiance of true
liberty than to yield poltroon, alb
ject compliance With the dictates of n
drunken English police, gathered in
the scums of London. petted like
hired gladiators, and turned loose
upon a great religious and peaceful
nation to which for over a thousand
years all western mankind is debtor
beyond calculation or payment, and
whose affectionate children are scat
tered the world over, wherever Eng
lish accents are heard.
when will this berserker orgy of
the English coalition Parliament
cease? Masked by the man of 'nimble
politics. but covering beneath the
whip of Carson and n small rump OF
discredited and disintegrating Irish
Professionals In corner Of Ulster, Il
disavowed by their fellow Unionists
OF the south of ireland, was de-
scribed yesterday by A. G.. Gardiner,
Of London. as "thc basest House of
Commons tnat,has been linownn with
in living memory. a Parliament COM
posed of the dregs of all the worst
motives of war, hate, greed, and ig-
norance."
| Was It to breed in Ireland the
anarchy we are lighting from New
| York to San Francisco that millions
of American youth crossed the ocean
and fought to save England from
| Ter near destruction by the Kaiser
Shall we sit by with folded hands
and sielnt lips while great mer-
camille seat like Cork Is levelled TO
the ground? When the Goths
burned Rome, when Robert Guiscard
burned u again, and when Charles
w surpassed both, II was done In
the name OF law and order, the
cruel law and order of conquest, but
stnl proclaimed and enforced. fierce
and bloody as were It's rules, and
! inhuman "a were It's sanctions.
ANARCHY ~ DISGUISE.
But in Cork wild-eyed anarchy
wearing the insignia OF English su-