New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-24
Ii Irish Homes
Put to Torch to
Avengge Police
Three Civilians Shot i'm a
Raid by Uniformed Mem
and Family Houses Are
Burned i'm Four Towns
M'Cready Warns Rebels
Further Attacks b. Sinn
Fein Will Bring Repris-
ais From the Soldiers

LONDON, Sept. GAS reprisal for
the shooting of policemen near La
hinch, Ireland, Wednesday, says a dis
patch to the Central News from Ennis,
party of uniformed men during the
night set fire to eighteen houses in
Midtown, Malbay, Lahinch and Ennis
town. Three civilians were sfot dead.
Castle Mary. tie seat OF Colonel
Longfield, dating from the reign. of
King John, was estroyed By raiders
last night. The oidcrs gave the occu-
pants of the e tile ten minutes In
which to leave he building.
DUBLIN, Sept 2s-An1 official report
issued at Dublin Castle this evening
shows that the attack on the motor
lorry containing six policemen near
Lahinch was more serious than pre-
vlously was announced. Six constables
were killed, while soldiers who fired
on their assailants assert that they
saw four of them drop. The police
allege that their assailants used dunn
dunn bullets and that the wounded were
fired upon and killed.
Police Lorry Ambushed
A Dublin dispatch Wednesday night
said the motor lorry containing the
six policemen was ambuscaded by 100
men and that four of the policemen
were wounded. Two military lorries
vert to the rescue and the attacking
parties fired. Two soldiers were re-
ported to have been killed. Thirty ar
rests were made. Houses in a village
adjoining Lahinch were burned in 70
prisal.
DUBLIN, Sept. % (By The Associated
Press ).-General Sir Nevil McCready,
commander of the military forces in
Ireland, in an interview to-day denied
that the reprisas for the assassination
of police taken at Balbriggan by the
BLACK and tans" and elsewhere by the
regular police or military, were actu-
ated by any set policy formulated by
the government. He declared, however,
that if the guerrilla warfare of the
Irish republican army continued the
situation might become such that re-
prisals would be necessary.
MCready Defines Position
He made clear the position of the
military forces in Ireland, saying that
they had nothing to do with the ad-
ministraton or operations of the Royal
Irish Ccnstabulary and its British
auxiliary, the "black and tans," other
than to give them necessary support
in carrying out their police duties.
when | came to Ireland" General
McCready said, "the idea got abroad
that came in the capacity of kind
of 'Pooh-bah,' with supervision over
the police as we'll as the military. That
was an entirely mistaken IMPRESSION"
1t was not asserted by General Mac
ready that there have been no reprisals
by the police and military. On the
contrary, he explained why reprisals
occurred, saying that any American
army officer would understand exactly
the spirit which led to them.
Il WISH" he said, with a smile, 1--WE
could ship a whole lot of the trouble
makers to your country. You would
know how to deal with them"
Discussing the governments attitude
toward the Cork hunger strikers, Gen
eral Macrcady sald The Irish Repub
llcan army, having dsorganized not
only the machinery of justice in this
country, but also the transport of
mails, have themselves to blame IL
more time than usual has been lost by
the government in taking the steps re-
quired to bring to trial the men &C
cused of murder and sedition."