New-York tribune., 1920-10-05
Police DESTROY
More Shops and
Homes i'm Erin
Reprisals Carried Out at
Ballinagare After Sfnn
Fein Raiders Attempt to
Burn Officers Barracks
Discard Hunger Strikes
Of 800 Arrested Last Month
Only 4 Attempted Fasts;
Ireland Is Facing Ruin

DUBLIN, Oct a. AS the result Of
an unsuccessful Sinn Fein raid to burn
the police barracks at French Park.
County Of Roscommon, Saturday. re-
prisals were carried out in that neigh
borhood Sunday morning by police and
military in motor lorries. At Ballina-
gare two shops and the residence of a
farmer were burned by means Of
bombs and petrol. Many crops and
much property were destroyed The
house and furniture. of a prominent
Gaelic leader also were burned and a
farmer was stabbed. There was con-
siderable shooting and the townspe ople
were terrified.
General headquarters says that
twenty soldiers to-day surprised sixty
civilians preparing an ambush on the
patrol, the civilians fed. One was
Killed. Several shotguns and ammuni-
tlon, ten bicycles and steel helmets and
equipment were abandoned by the
civilians in their fight. There were
no casualties among the soldiers
Prisoners Quit Hunger Strikes
LONDON, Oct 5.-As a result of
Lord Mayor MacSwiney's long fast
IRISH prisoners have ceased to resort
TO hunger striking, says The Daily
Mail to-day. The newspaper adds that
there were more than 800 arrests in
connection with Sim Fem nropapanda IN
disturbances during September. but
that only four Of the men arrested at
tempted hunger striking, and these
abandoned it in a day or two. Mac
Swiney's condition is unchanged.
A dispatch to The Daily Mail from
Dublin pictures a black outlook for
ireland during the coming winter 1t
says that, owing to the shortage of
money, sanatoriums and asylums are
being closed, the burning of cream
cries has paralyzed that Industry and
the closing of 500 miles of railroad
has cut off some areas from distribut-
ing centers. Cows and calves are be-
ing sent TO England in large numbers
and there is shortage of butter Many
small firms are going bankrupt, and
the country is faced With ruin. There
is much unemployment in Dublin as a
consequence of the strike of builders.
Asquth for Dominion Plan
In a communication in The Times to-
day, Herbert H. Asquith. former Prime
Minister, says he is convinced that the
bestowal upon Ireland of the status of
an autonomous dominion, in the full
est and widest sense, is the only solu-
tion of the Irish problem. To accom-
plish this, says Mr. Asquith, it is nee
essary to make the Irish people be-
lieve that what is offered comes from
an honest and also a reliable source.
With reference to Viscount Grey's
proposal, Mr. Asquith says:
81 cannot bring myself to contem-
plate, even as counsel of ultimate
despair, our final abandonment-as he
seems to suggest-of the trust which
hi story has nOSpG uDOr
Concerning naval and military forces
Mr.. Asquth writes:
'No Irish government could be so
insane as to mortgage its scanty mar
gin of resources for such frutless
and costly enterprise as the creation
of an Irish navy, nor is it readily con-
ceivable that it would seek to deny
what it would never effectively prevent
free access to Irish ports and har-
bors of vessels of the imperial navy
Further, no grant of
autonomy could be regarded as com
plete which did not include the right
to raise and maintain for purposes of
local defense an adequate military
force"
LONDON, Oct. 4-The condition of
Lord Mayor MacSwiney is unchanged,
according TO the bulletin issued by the
Irish Self-Determination League at
o'clock tonight He was weak and
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