Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-01

stationed, ten trucks full of them
started for Balbriggan. There they
first set fire to the public houses and
a large number Of private homes from
which they drove the people, and then
burned to the ground some Of the larg-
est hosiery mills in Ireland, belonging
to an English firm. They wound up
the raid by numbering a barber n
a dairyman, both Sim Feiners. Sim
lar raids were made last week on
other Irish towns where the police a
been enraged by the killing or wound
ing of their comrades. In County
Clare q military truck in which were
a number of police was ambushed by
armed men and in the ensuing hght
four of the officers were killed. The
police involved in the B~albriggan incl
dent were not members of the Royal
Irish c~onstabulary, but recruits for
that force who, from their uniforms.
are known as 'hlack and tans." In
the last two weeks more than twenty
policemen and soldiers and a score of
Sim Feiners have been killed in Ire
land, and large numbers on both sides
have been wounded.
Oswald Garrison Willard, who used
to be VIGOROUSLY pro-German and
anti-British, has formed a committee
of 100 Americans to investigate and
report publicly on conditions in Ire
land, with especial reference to atroci-
ties. Public hearings will be held in
Washington by a commission of the
committee. Several senators and gov
errors have agreed to serve on the
committee, all the members of which
are said to be prominent citizens.
So far as the public has been per.
mitted to know, little progress has
been made toward discovering and ap-
pretending the perpetrators of the
Wall street bomb outrage. 1t has been
definitely established, however, that
the blast was caused by the explosion
of a huge INT bomb with a time de.
vice, and there is no doubt the affair
was arranged by reds. Many arrests
have been made, but it is not known
that the guilty persons are in Gus
tody. Since the New York explosion
a good many other cities have re.
ceived warnings that certain public
buildings were to be blown up. a
good guess is that the outrage was the
work of radical leaders who wished by
this demonstration to keep up the
revolutionary spirit of their recruits.
The five Socialists who were ex-
PEELED from the New York legislature
some time ago, and who were re-elect-
ed recently, attempted to take Their
seats. Three of them were again
Ousted. and the others resigned in pro
test. The action of the majority in
the assembly was opposed by Theo-
dore Roosevelt and is characterized
by Charles e. Hughes incredible folly
and fragrant disregard of the funda-
mental principles of American institu-
TONS" Owing to certain complica-
lions this time, the ease may be taken
into the courts.
The Kenyon committee of the SEN
ate resumed in Washington its inves.
tigation of campaign funds, and sub
poenaed several bureau chiefs in the
endeavor to learn to what extent fed
eral agencies are being employed to
disseminate election propaganda for
Gov Tho Ropublioonc occort tho p1h.
LEGATIONS of the bureaus of education,
war and navy have been used this
way. James w. Gerard, chairman of
the Democratic finance committee.
told the committee he had collected
only $12S,000 to date and that he
would be happy if he got a million
also that no limit was put on indi-
vidual contributions. William Boyce
Thompson, chairman of the Republic
an ways and means committee, told
the committee the Cox charges were
"all bunk" and aroused Senator Reed
by asserting that Mr.. Cox sis no
stranger to Wall street" Pinned
down, he said he implied nothing sin
lister.
Devotees of the national sport are
wrought up over another inquiry that
began last week. This is an investi-
cation, by a grand jury at Chicago.
into baseball gambling, and it gains
added interest because it promises to
uncover crooked work by players In
the worlds series last fall between
the Chicago White Sox and the Gin
cinnati National league team. Com
ment, If any is needed, must be de-
ferred since at this writing the in
| curry is only getting fairly started.