Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1920-07-03
MOVES TO CRUSH
IRISH REVOLT
Policy of Wholesale Arrests and
Imprisonment Without Trial
to Be Extended.
SOLDIERS HELP ORANGEMEN
Carson Prepared for War If Govern
mont FalIs-Deciares He viii "Or-
qanlze for Defense" Unless London
Shows II Can Handle Situation.

London.-Premier Lloyd George had
a further conference with Chief Sec
rotary Greenwood, when extremely
drastic measures In Ireland to check
the Slim Fein progress were decided
upon. Already wholesale arrests with
out warrant and imprisonment without
trial are being resumed, and it Is be-
lieved that this policy Is to have
wide extension, every Sim Feiner Of
Importance being marked down for
capture.
viceroy French's appeal to Sem
Feiners to present their demands was
devised as a preliminary to these new
measures of repression SC that the
government can say that they gave
the Sim Feiners a chance before acting.
OF course, Premier Lloyd George knew
the Sim Feiners will never enter into
negotiations, especially with him or
with any British government, having
before them the invariable fate of pre-
ceding Irish politicians who trusted
him or them.
The prediction of the coming trou-
BILE in Belfast, which will reach eli
max on July IL, Is being fully borne
out. Orangemen, as now, always be-
gin these disturbances by smashing
and looting saloons In the Orange dis
trict run by Catholics. Until long aft
err the penal times Catholics were not
allowed to have any shops in Belfast
except public houses, and they still
own a large proportion Of them. AS
in Derry, when Sim Feiners reply to
Orange attacks, the military and po-
lice will fire upon the Sim Feiners.
Sir Edward Carson himself Is get
ting anxious about the spread of the
disturbances to Belfast, because he
knows how fully armed and equipped
his followers are, and they are In
position as well as in frame OF mind
to effect terrible massacre once they
get on the warpath. Instead Of ap-
pealing to them, however, he asks the
premier for more troops, who will con-
Germ themselves only with Sim Fem
ers.
Robert Lynd, the Daily News spe-
cial correspondent In Ireland, says that
the government has obviously decided
to blockade Ireland by closing down
the railways at Dublin and other
places and Is preparing for food diff
culties In case of complete stoppage
of the railways, and food committees
are. being organized. In a letter to
the Ulster Unionist Council Sir Ed
ward Carson says If the government
cannot carry out the essential duties
OF a government" he will not hesitate
on his own responsibility to Organize
the people for defense"
A Dublin dispatch to the Daily News
says no trace of the place of deten-
ton of Brigadier General Lucas has
been discovered by the military au-
thOrities, but It Is stated that the au-
th0rities In Cork have received an
anonymous intimation that the gen
eral Is Gin safe confinement" and that
he will receive the care and respect
due his rank while he Ia prisoner OF
war"
Newbridge, County Kildare, is the
great military center serving Curragh,
the AldershOt of Ireland. For the first
time it was sought to dispatch soldiers
thence by a train passing from Kill
kenny to Dublin. The driver refused
to carry them and the soldiers remain
ed on the train, blocking up the line.