New Britain herald., 1920-11-22
FIRE BREAKS OUT
 DURING THE NIGHT
Official Statement Declares That Lord Mayor of City Asked For Police Protec- ton and Only Blacks and Tans" Were Available.

London, Nov. 2.-(By the ASso- ciated Press)-The sending of addi- tional troops to Ireland is being ser iously considered. 1t 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 dis patches had ~been received Reports to tho 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 telephonic message at s o'clock this morning re- ported tho 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
 Mcager reports during the night stated that shooting was going on as sequence to yesterdays assassinations and the subsequent clash between tho military and crowd at a football game at Croke Park. The lord mayor of Dublin applied for police protection last evening. it was stated officially today Tho vlceroy gave perm ission for the guard beinr sent but no regular military or police being available, n party of "black and tans" was sent to guard the lord nihyor. n Killed. 100 Wounded.
 Murder stalked through the streets or Dublin yesterday and at nightfall the mcagre reports received here in- dicated that at least 25 persons hnd been Killed and upwards of 100 moro or less seriously wounded. The days tdisorders which added an appalling chapter Co the tragedy that has been enacted in Ireland for the past sev- oral months began with the apparent " deliberate shooting O. fourteen men who Ton tho most part were military orlccrs During the afternoon, Irish eonstabulary. or black and tans'' raided Crocke Park. whore a football Fame was in progress and in the melee which resulted at least ten persons were killed.
 Communication with Ireland seem- lnEly was interrupted last evening but the latest advices declared that nres had broken out in various places In that city Shooting again began tn the streets just before midnight and it was asserted q number of per- sons had been killed.
 , Recent confident declarations by members of the British ministry. to tho effect that outrages were decreas- Ing In number and that authority of law was being re-cstablished had been hopefully welcomed by the general public.
 tf Army Men Killed.
 Whether Sundays tragic events are to he regarded as disproof of such @ar.FH fINf NfaT nFfEs fs,a I,s Military authorities in Dublin arc said to hold the view that the mur- der of the i4 army officers will prove the final outburst of q nearly broken roftspirncy-the last desperate throw of the fugitives who are known to have fiocked to Dublin to escape the severity of the measures employed in the provinces to suppress Sim Fein- Ism
 There is no lack, however, Of scornful inferences and the fact that theso fugitives have been able to enjoy freedom from arrest since hay ing arrived in Dublin and could have become accurately acquainted with the residences and habits of their victims. who 1t is stated were secur- ing evidence to be submitted be- fore the court martial which will try recently arrested Sim Feiners. is re- garded as furnishing significant ground for doubling the confidence supposedly held by officials.
 Ministers responsible for the ad- ministration in Ireland were called to meet this morning to discuss the situation. Sir Hnmar Greenwood. chief secretary for Ireland, and Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary of state for war who is responsible for the movements of tho army in Ireland were in constant tolephonic commun- icntion with Dublin Sunday.