New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
British to End
Irish Reprisal
Campaign Soon
Cabinet Intends That Au.
thorities Shall Deal Firm.
ly i'm Suppressing the I'm
ruly ''Black and Tans''
9I Police Slain i'm 1920
MacSwiney So Weak He Us
Hardly Able to Whisper
Few Words to Relatives
BY Frank Getty

From The TrtbWne's Europeam Bureau
Copyright. 1920, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Sept. 25.-Oflcial action
to check the police campaign of re-
prisals in ireland is forecast in the
evening newspapers here to-day. AL
though there is considerable sympathy
in this country with the point of view
expressed by Sir Nevil MacReady, head
Of the military establishment, in an
Associated Press interview, that it was
only human for the police to act on
their own initiative when they saw Of
ficers shot down, it is understood that
the Cabinet intends that the Irish au-
thorities shall deal firmly with the
unruly "Black and Tans."
The attempted shooting of General
Strickland in Cork last night, in which
one of the attackers Is believed to
have been killed, focused attention on
the undesirability Of the policy of give
and-take for Ireland.
Indignation i'm Ireland
The statements made by MacReady in
the interview came as surprise here,
moderation. The Dublin papers re-
produce it to-day and it has caused q
storm of indignation in ireland. The
Freeman's Journal says: 81
1.-THE interview not merely. excuses
the murders committed by government
agents throughout Ireland but it 10 q
! threat that murders have become the
official policy"
The newspaper demands the removal
of MacReady. "Otherwise," it says, "the
! government becomes an accomplice in
| crimes that are shocking civilization"
The Unionist Irish Times says:
"Repression ought not to be the gov
ernment's whole policy. 1t encourages
no moderate man to try to stem the
tide of disorder and it induces no ex-
tremist to dare the public by an act Of
political abnegation. British might
The Times demands as an overture to
peace measure Of full self-govern-
| ment for Ireland within the empire,
with safeguards for Ulster interests
which all Irishmen are willing to con-
cede,
Ninety-one Policemen Killed
Nine policemen have been killed in
Ireland this week, bringing the total
! for the year to ninety-one.
Additional police reinforcemepts were
sent to Brixton Prison to-day, where
Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of
| Cork, continues his hunger strike.
BALLINAMORE, ireland, Sept. 25.-
Several men were dragged from their
houses by uniformed men to-day and
forced, while on their knees, to swear
that the boycott against the police
would be removed. This action is
understood to have been taken in re-
prisal for an attack on the local police
barracks last night.
Windows in the homes Of several
prominent Sim Feiners were riddled
with shot to-day.
LONDON, Sept. 25 (By The As.
sociated Press).-Terence MacSwiney
passed better night last night, and
consequently, was more refreshed this
morning, said bulletin issued by the
Irish Self determination League this
forenoon. He had a few hours OF
sleep, but was said to be in q state OF
extreme weakness and able to whisper
only a couple Of words to relatives who
in his head, from which he suffered
Tonight his condition was unchanged
! CORK, Sept. 25.-Drs. Pearson ant
Battiscombe, the Jail physicians. TO-
day expressed profound amazement that
all Of the eleven hunger strikers were
still alive and conscious. Both sait
that but for the devotion and care o.
the nuns it Is certain several of tht
strikers would long since have beer
dead.
The doctors have been warned b,
high Sim Fein officials that If it were
discovered that the nuns were accept
ing from the doctors any instruction,
whatever the nuns would be instanti,
ordered to leave, the Jail. The doctor
explained that the nuns were volunteer
and were permitted by the Jail au
thorities to attend the prisoners onl!
because of humanitarian consideration
The nuns reported to-day, according
to the doctors, that the strikers ha.
been reduced to q very severe degre,
: Of enaciation. The facial emaciation
the doctors observed in the morning
} vas most pronounced in the case O
Murray, Power, Kenny, Donovan ans
Fitzgerald, but only two or these
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