The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-02
BELFAST TOLL
Il; M'SWINEY
APPEAL Denied
No Change in Plans, Says
Chief Secretary for Ireland
Important Maps Taken
in Sim Fein Raid.
RAINING ON Rioters
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
BELFAST, Sept. 2.-Drooping skies
canopied Belfast this morning and the
rain was greeted with relief by the
militia in the hope that it would dis
courage rioting. The soldiers instead
of being grouped at three corners
were posted in doorways and other
vantage points to deal with snipers.
The death list in the present rioting
was increa sed to 27 during the night.
Soldiers shot one of their own men
while chasing q sniper, the pursuer
being mistaken for the man he was
chasing. A civilian wounded during
Tuesdays rioting died.
snipers Shoot Into Crowd.
Snipers fired into a dense crowd
shortly before II o'clock last night
near the Crumlin road Jail, and for a
time panic reigned in that section of
the city. One civilian was fatally in
jured by bullet fired by one of the
snipers. Soldiers were rushed at
once to the scene and pursued the
man who did the shooting. He es-
capped.
During small riot in Dover street,
where hostile crowds gathered during
the evening, one man was seriously
wounded.
At II o'clock, the hour at which the
curfew ordinance is effective, the
streets were almost deserted.
During yesterday several persons
were injured by snipers in the north
ern part OF the city, Worth street be-
ing the center of the most disorder.
Several Pitched Battles
There were no pitched battles SIM
liar to those fought on Monday and
Tuesday, but feeling was very bitter
between the contending factions, and
at times only the opportune interven-
ton Of police or soldiers averted Sc
rious conflicts. Many dwellings and
stores were looted during the day and
rumors of new attacks made by the
respective factions kept the city in a
state of excitement. Several of those
wounded during intervals of firing
were onlookers, who, unfamiliar with
the winding streets, found themselves
in the line of fire.
LONDON, Sept. 2-Appeals in be.
half of Terence MacSwiney, lord
mayor OF Cork. who il in a critical
condition at Brixton prison, this city,
as result of hunger strike, will not
be recognized by the British govern.
ment, Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief
secretary for Ireland, strongly init.
mated in an interview with the cor.
respondent Of the London Times at
Lucerne today Sir Hamar also indi
Gated the government would unswerv.
ingly adhere to it's Irish policy.
None Of the mercy which some
seek to invoke for the lord mayor
said the chief secretary was shown
the 80 policemen who have lost their
lives in Ireland"
Work of Small Body
"The present lawlessness in Ire.
land" the Times correspondent
quotes Sir Hamar as declaring, "is the
work of small body of men who are
striving by carefully planned anarchy
to impose secession from the British
empire on 80 per cent of the people oi
Ireland who do not want to secede'
Sir Hamar declared that if the Sim
Fein had been willing to accept any
| thing less than complete Irish inde
pendence, premier Lloyd Georges pro
posal to meet Irish leaders would not
have remained unanswered
He reiterated the government was
willing to grant Ireland any form o
government acceptable to the major
ity of the people, so long as the rights
| Of the empire should be employed tc
prevent secession in Ireland.
Lloyd George Back Next Week.
Premier Lloyd George, the CORE
spondent says will return to Londor
early next week and will not attend
the meeting Of Premiers Millerant
and Giolitti at AK Les Bains, which
has been fixed for Sept. II, and II
He also added that Emir Feisal, who
was elected King of Syria early ir
the summer and who is at present ir
Rome, is not going to Switzerland
| having failed to arrange a meeting
with the British Premier.
| LONDON, Sept. "A Sim Feir
raiding party invaded the Royal ali
force headquarters at Baldoyle. neal
} Dublin, Saturday night. and carried of
a large number of secret military docu
ments including the army code anc
cipher. used at the present time, &C
cording to the Daily Mail. 1t is de
clared that the coup was the mos
daring and important that has beer
attempted in Ireland since the presen
unrest in that country began.
Among the papers stolen it is sait
were orders relating to the joint oper
alton of the Army, Navy, Air force
and the Royal Irish constabuary; th'
scheme of Irish defense plans, the de
tails for lighting airdromes for nigh
flying and proposals for new develop
nIents Of the Royal air force in Ire
land. Revolvers, ammunition ant
EEald oil fol-