Taiban Valley news., 1920-11-26
SCORES KILLED
IN DUBLIN RAID
MILITARY OFFICERS AND CIVIL
IANs DIE IN RIOTS AT
cRoKE PARK.
RIOTS AT BALL GAME
BLACK AND TAN SURROUND
GAME AND OPEN FIRE ON
FOOTBALL CROWD.
Newspaper Union News Service.

western Newspaper Union News Service
Dublin, Nov. 22.-Fourteen persons
were killed and six wounded in what
appears to have been a pre-arranged
simultaneous attack ON military Of
ficers and former officers in their lodg-
ings in various parts of this city, ac-
cording to an official announcement.
The streets of the city were immediate
ly placed under heavy patrol by the
military who resorted to firing rifles
in order to disperse crowds.
Thirty persons are reported to have
been killed and many injured in a pam
ic when "black and tans" invaded a
football match today and fired on the
crowd.
The Tipperary team was playing
against the Dublin team in Croke park
before a crowd of $4,000 when "black
and tans" entered in force by the two
gates and after a scene of wild cOnfu-
sion fired on the people.
Sixteen lorries with auxiliaries ar
rived outside of Croke park when the
game had been under way for about
fifteen minutes. They completely sur
rounded the grounds, mounting ma
chine guns on the railway line over
looking the park and then burst
through the gates.
Shots were fired in the air, then, to
the CONSERVATION of the spectators, the
auxiliaries opened fire on the crowd
from various quarters.
An official version of the affair says
that the auxiliary police visited Croke
park for the purpose of searching the
crowd, as it was known that many
gunmen connected with murders ear
ler in the day were present. Indeed,
tend the match. According to this ac-
count ten persons were killed. After
spectators and players had vacated the
place, no fewer than thirty revOlvers
were found on the ground.
An eyewitness describing the scene
said that while the football match was
in progress parties of 'black and tans,"
armed with rifles, came on the field.
They were hooted by the crowd and al
most Immediately they fired into the
masses of people. This witness says
he counted more than thirty who fell.
A stampede ensued and many were
bruised and trampled upon in their eff
forts to escape from the grounds.
Assassinations occurred in various
parts of the city.
In one case, three of the assassins
captured two "black and tans" while
they were on their way to reinforce the
troops, and killed them.
The dead include two cOurt-martial
officers. Captain Fitzgerald, military
officer, was shot in bed in EarlsfOrt
terrace. Two other officers were shot
in their beds in Pembroke street, a
quarter of a mile away, and danger
ously wounded.
Three men, suspected of being secret
service agents, likewise were attacked
and shot while asleep in Hampton
street, and still another man in Lower
Mount street was shot. Capt. Donald
MacLean, and man named Smith,
owner of house, and another man
named Caldown, were shot in house
in Donnybrook. Captain MacLean was
killed instantly and Smith died in a
few minutes. At a house in Baggot
street Captain Newbury was shot by
five men.
London, Nov. 21.-The Irish office,
in note, says that the wholesale kill
ing of officers and former officers in
Dublin was the result of the recent
stringent campaign by the Irish gov
eminent against the Sim Feiners.
Most of those killed, the statement
says, either were cOurt-martial officers
or were connected with the legal ad-
ministration.
The members of the attacking party
which invaded homes in various parts
of Dublin, thes tatement asserts, also
searched the premises of their victims
as though seeking to secure evidence
of the activity of the men slain or
wounded in the enforcement of the
law.