The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-04
Dimly Yelled Campaigns
Taking Heavy Toll From
Both Sides.
DAMAGE Is $4,000, 900
Deliberate Destruction Of
Property by Torch Is
Daily Occurrence.
REPRISALS NOW DIRECT
sFor Every One You Kill We
Will XIII Ten,' Warning
Credited 20 Soldiers.
REPRIsALs NOW DIRECT

Special cabIc Despatch % THn Tin1n.
Copyright. 1880. ~ TnE Nrw Nonx HnNatb.
LONDON, Oct. 3-Ihere i war In
Ireland. II is guerrilla warfare not
open warfare-but II Is a cold fact
that no man there can take political
action without peril 20 his life. Too,
there Is no doubt that reprisals against
life have been planned by both sides,
and In many instances carried out.
and there is no d0ubs that each side
has deliberately destroyed property
belonging to the other side; that this
campaign has cost hundreds OF lives.
The Government says the Sim Fein
has killed 113 policemen and soldiers.
The Sim Feln charge fifty murders
directly to the police. Neither figure
takes into account more than hun
dred civilians killed during the rioting
In Belfast and elsewhere on the island.
Cost Is 100000 "A Week.
At the same time il is war which
is costing the British taxpayer
round 100000 a week. IL Is a war
which keeps a republican army num-
bering some $1,000 volunteers and
twice o0,00O British troops constantly
on the alert.
1t is a campaign which cost In ma
terial damage up TO the enc OF last
July-the last figures submitted
ParIiament--more than $10.01O0OJ.
and this sum has probably been tripl' I
BY now. with great destruction 81
property in Belfast, destruction pI
important creamerles and other indus
tries in the south and the burning oi
entire villages.
From January to September 5, the
Government slys. there we're 4.2VO
outrages committed in ire! nj. In
Guiding the destruction of sixty-,hree
court houses, $50 btrracks either lie
stroyed or damaged i0S raids on mail-
and thirty-six raids on lighthouses
and coast guard stations. The Sim
Fein bulletins list ninety towns
wrecked by the armed forces of the
Crown in the last twelve months,
more than half of them occurring
since the reprisals of last July, and
in the face Of the statement maue 10
the House of Commons by winston
Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State
for War, that persons making such
reprisals would be punished.
Outrnges Are Daily Events.
Arthur Griffith, founder Of the Sim
Fein: has refused to reply To n direct
request for an estimate of the damage
done In Ireland. but a rep esrntative
If the Irish League in London writes
TO the London Times listing the fol-
lowing:
August lo--Eantry, County Cork.
shot up by the police.
August II - Oranmore, Galway.
sacked
August 2s.-Glengariff. Cork. shot
UP.
houses wrecked by troops.
August 25-Watcrford wrecked by
police.
August 26-Creamery at l<nocklong.
Limerick, destroyed by police; Mas.
Kildare, shot up by police.
September -Ballaghadareen Mayo,
sacked by police.
September 2-Inniscarra, Cork. par
tically sacked by police.
September 10-Tullow, Carlow, sack
ed by police.
September 17-Galway city shot up
and bombed by the police.
September 1S-Hotises wrecked and
sired by the Limerick police.
September 19--Houses In Salt Hill.
Galway, wrecked and fired by the
police.
September 20--Tuam. Galway, shot
up by the police; Balbriggan sacked
by the police.
September 21-Balbriggan shot up
by the police.
September 22-Drumshambo. Lett
rim, partially sacked by the police,
houses in Tuam and Galway city
wrecked by the police; Ennistimon,
Clare, sacked by the police; Lahinch,
Glare, sacked by the police; Mitown-
Malbay, Glare. sacked by the police;
houses in Galway city wrecked and
looted by the police.
September 24-Newspaper offices
end houses in Galway city bombed and
wrecked by the police; Ballinamore
Leitrim. shot up by the police.
September, 25-Athlone, westmeath.
wrecked; houses in Killorgln. Kerry.
wrecked by the police.
September 27--Trim. Meath. sacked