Evening star., 1920-12-02
IN IRELAND
| SHOW 673 KILLED
List Does Not Include Belfast
Riots or Cadet Victims at
KiImichaeI.
81 COURTHOUSES RAZED
Arrests in Erin During 1920 Have
Averaged More Than Hun
dred Weekly.
81 COURTHOUSES RAzED

Il LONDON, December / tby the AS
sociated Press).-Persons to the num-
ber of 673 have been killed or wound
ed in Ireland up to November q of
the present year by nti-government
elements. according to a statement
issued today by the home office. The
deaths do not include twenty persons
killed in Londonderry and siXty-two o
in Belfast during the summer rioting,
nor fifteen cadets killed in the Kill
michael ambuscade Sunday night.
The statement says that ISL police
men have been killed and 230 wound
ed; that forty-seven soldiers have met
with death and 1o3 wounded. Civil
ans to the number of Al have been
+! killed and 191 wounded.
Sixty-seven courthouses have been
destroyed. and 528 police barracks
have been destroyed and 161 damaged.
There have been $50 raids on mails
and As raids on coast guard stations
there have been 1851 raids made for
| arms.
Another official statement says the
1 arrests in Ireland averaged consider
i ably more than 100 weekly. During
! the last three weeks of November 406
+! persons were taken into custody for
/ political offenses. including 169 during
the last week of the month.
1 Suffers Defeat In House.
/ The government suffered a defeat
| in the house of lords tonight, when an
| amendment to the Irish home rule bill,
| submitted by Baron Oranmore and
! Browne. providing for the establish
| ment of senate. for southern Ireland.
| was carried against the government
| by a vote of 120 to Sc 1t was ex-
| planned that the object of the amend
ment was to safeguard the minority
! southern uniOniSts.
| Lord Birkenhead, lord high chancellor
| for the government, opposed the amend
ment on the ground that such a senate
| must be preponderantly nominative, and
| there was no hope of forcing such a
second chamber on southern Ireland
| He emphasized the governments desire
that the question of framing a senate
| should be left to the central council.
Lord Shandon moved an amendment
providing for joint session of the
| southern and northern senates as a
Substitute for the Irish council. Lord
| Birkenhead thought it preferable to dis
| cuss the subject at a later stage. Earl
Middleton urged that nothing was more
| likely to lead to some settlement than
Lord Shandon's proposal. This amend
ment was adopted, 4S to "a.
! An amendment bestowing a second
| chamber ON the Ulster parliament was
also adopted.
1 IO"n HAN Se1Ze0.
| RestiveRess among the city's unem-
! ployed, coupled with the lack of housing
accommodations. led to the seizure of
! the town hall at Edmonton, a northern
suburb of London, by several hundred
men today. The occupation of the build
| ing was entirely without violence. The
| men announce that they will use the
/ town hall as their headquarters until
something is done for them
! The town hall at Tottenham, another
| working district near the city. was the
| scene of a similar peaceable seizure
yesterday. The unemployed men who
| took possession of the building. how
ever. evacuated it today when the coun-
Gil announced that accommodations had
been found for them in the coroner s
court and in two large storehouses.
! DUBLIN. December 1-Prof John
| MacNeill, Sim Fein member of parlia-
ment,> was again arrested last night
He had been released from prison the
previous day. having been arrested in
| Dublin on November 26
| A large party of auxliaries, equipped
with motor and searchlights. visited
| Prof. MacNeilFs residence, at Booters-
/ town, near kinsstown, and took him
| and his second son into custody. His
/ eldest son is already in Jail.