The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-10-25

An officer OF my battalion picked one
OF them up. This officer having seen
similar slips IN Bantry and other
! places thought IL would be good
thing to hand Il in to one OF the
hotels in Glengarriff as he passed
through. As yours was the most con-
venient. being close to the road, he
put IL in an envelope and addressed
| II to the manageress and handed II In
as he passed.
IL. NJ. Jones, aforementioned,
Commanding Troops. Bantry, and
| Commanding First Battalion, the
Kings Regiment.
also wrote TO Sir HaUar Green
wood chief secretary for Ireland.
| but have received no reply. II VIII
kbe seen that neither Sir Nevil Mac
| ready nor Colonel Jones disavows the
notice, and that Colonel Jones makes
no answer to the request for an as
surance of non-molestation.
i may add that there is no justin
! cation for the issue OF such a notice
| in this district, where the only dam
| age to loyalist premises has been done
by the police. In July. last, they
burned the stores of c. w. Biggs. the
principal merchant in Bantry. a man
highly respected. Protestant. and a
lifelong Unionist. with damage OF
over S125.000 and the estate office OF
! the late Mr.. Leigh.White, also
Unionish
subsequently,. in August, last. the
police fred into Mr.. Biggs' office
while his Residence has since been
commandeered for police barracks
He has had to Aend his family to Dub
lin and to live himself in hotel.
Only two reasons\ can be assigned for
a
he employed Sim Feiners-he could
not work his large business without
them, there being no Nnionist work
men in Bantry--the other recently
published statement ofNhis protest
| ing-on his own forty years expert
ence-againsb orange allegations.
The July burning was part of
general program, in which a Grip
pie, named Crowley, was delibeTateiy
shot by the police while in bed and
several houses were set on FIRE while
| the people were asleep. A report
was made TO Dublin Castle by Mr.
| Hynes, the county court judge, who
happened to be on the spot for quart
| ter sessions. Questioned in the House,
OF Commons. the British government
| refused to produce this report on the
ground that production would not be
in the public interest, which means
as Parliamentary experience teaches
one-that IT was damning to the
British government.
Under the heading "a National Dis
grace" the London Times denounces
the governmental outrages in Ireland
| in scathing terms, and does not hest
| tate to compare them with the Ger
man sacking Of Louvain, in Belgium,
which was one of the most important
factors used to get the world to join
Great Britain in the World War. The
Times says in its editorials:
Day by day the udings from Ire
land grow worse. The accounts OF
the recent arson and destruction by
tho military at Mallow in County
Cork. as revenge for a Sim Fcin
raid which caught the Seventeenth
Lancers mapping, must All English
readers with a sense Of shame. The
town hall and a number of houses
and business premises were burned,
tho population being driven to seek
safety in flight or to camp in tho
open fields.
The authorities would have been
fully entitled. after the raid on the
military barracks, which cost the life
OF n British sergeant, to arrest on
suspicion of completely any townfolk
VaCainst whom prima facie case
could be established. No complaint
could have been made had they dealt
smartly with any insurgents caught
in possession of arms. But they were
not entitled to reduce to ruins the
chief buildings of the township and
to destroy the property of the inhabi-
tants merely as an act OF terrorism.
The name of England is being
sullied throughout the empire and
throughout the world by this saw
Iagery. for which the government can
no longer escape, however much they
may seek to disclsim responsibility.
I'VE shall doubtless be told, with
the inimitablc cynicism of a leading
mi nisterial organ, that Irish towns
are not really towns but only villages:
that, to quote its own words, 'compari-
sons with n great and populous city
like Louvain are fsrcical: or, we may
be assured once again that II seems
improbable that many innocent peo-
pie have suffered by the rcprisals.'
Apologies of this description do but
deepen the discredit Of the govern
ment, for they are written not In any
Irish police organ. but In London, and
bear manifest trace of official inspi-
ration.
"Unloss we arc mistaken. tho
British Government have not de-
clared war upon the people of Iro-
land. Yet thooe 'reprisals' are acts
OF war. and of very ugly war, too.
We are supposed to be engaged in
maintaining law md order In Ire
land with tho aid OF disciplined
forces. but we are, IN reality, en-
ploylng lawlessness and disorder as
a means OF counter-terrorisn.
| The wreckcrs NJ RalbrigGan.
Tuam. Trim and Mallov arc but tho
most flavrant Instances % system
deliberately organized.