Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27
ENGLAND ARRESTS ]
. SIM FEM HEADS !
AND MANY OTHERS
Stern Methods Taken by
! Soldiers - Believed That
Secret Documents Have
Been Secured


down on leaders of the Sim Fem
movement, British forces today ar
| rested Arthur Griffith. acting pres
| ident of the Irish republic" John
Mcneil, founder of the Irish volun.
teers and several other Irish off,
Gals of the republican" organiza-
| ton.
Griffith was arrested at his home
here at a. m. today. The charge
| against him was not made public.
Since the murders Of IA British
officers in Dublin Sunday there has
been great activity and hundreds Of
suspects have been gathered in by
| soldiers and police.
The attacks last Sunday were sup
posed to have been engineered to
destroy evidence British officials
mad compiled against Sim Fein
leaders. Many documents we're de-
| stroyed IN the raids and most of the
OFFICERS shot were connected with
the Intelligence department of the
British army. 1t was said Sim Fem
I>ers hoped their deaths would pre-
vent the Irish office from produce
ing evidence necessary to punish
Sim Fein heads.
Griffith is chief of he dali
cream, the Irish parliament. ana
| acting president of the republic"
! In the absence of Eamonn De Valera
The Irish volunteers, organized
by Mcneil. have assumed som.
strength despite the difficulty of
armlng and training. Drills are con-
quoted clandestinely in isolated
| spots. A uniform was designed for
the army but British laws prevented
us Delng worn in Ireland. A few
we're olsplayed by the honor guard
sent TO London for the funeral NJ
Terence MacSwney -
Inc arrests of Griffith and Mo-
| NelI came as a surprise. Roth b.a
Deen moderate in their public s+o+o-
ments and had been allowed go
1t was believed documents can
tureo recently in the wbolesaI.
search by Irish office officials ana
ne military implicated them with
me plots of extremists Or that ~.
| eoFernment had decided to m.l,a
e-e'h sweep of all Sim Fein lead-
-, 4fouerate or otherwise.
| IrlIhth. in describinr tba o.
rest OF her husband, said She MO.
awakened at 1870 o'clock tb;s 49,
| ing by the crashing of nan =.
| home. ie "iiiiieh
| Jumped to the window of orr IN.
stairs bedroom and called out" sb.
continued. The seven men commute
| ing the party pointed revolvers at
me- shouting, Come down at once.
l. turned and called to Arthur
mere they come; jump! and then
Shipped on dressing gown and ran
downstairs. The men, all eof then,
members OF the auxiliary police. al.
ready mad reached the landing. They
mad smashed the window and cut ths
door chain. They rushed into Ar
thurs room with revolvers pointed
and placed him under arrest.
When they took him away later, 7
SAID, Where are you going to put
him" To this, one of them replied.
We, are going to shoot Or hang him.
Our seven-year-o child who had
been sleeping by our bed heard the
remark. began to scream and became
hysterical. AS they drove off, how
| ever. another man shouted back: We
are taking him to the Bridewell.'"
Mrs. Griffith said her husband had
been sleeping at home for the first
time in a week. She recalled that
this was the third time he had been
arrested. The first was in the wins
ter of 1916, when he was kept impris-
oned for eight months. and the secs
ond in 1913, in connection with the
alleged pro-German conspiracy In
Ireland, when he was held for ten
months
eve had both been expecting this
arrest" continued Mrs. Griffith, land
really it is a relief"
Mrs. Griffith said the raiders had
remained two hours, systematically
searched the entire house and carried
Off an immense quantity of PAM
phlets. letters and books.
Arthur WAS not roughly handled,
but they threatened him any num-
Der of times
TWO KILLED, 3 HURT
BY EXPLOSION IN CORK
CORK, Nov. 26.-Two men were
killed and three wounded in bomb
explosion here today.
This was the second explosion in
Cork this week. In the confusion fol-
lowing the explosion police were at
first unable to ascertain who threw
the bomb. The neighborhood where
the explosion occurred was surround
ed by a police Gordon in an effort to
trap the perpetrators.
THIRTY-NINE PEOPLE
SLAIN DURING WEEK
DUBLIN, Nov. 26.-Thirty-nine
persons were killed and eighty-one
wounded in fights, bombings and as
sassinations in Ireland during the
last week, it was announced today at
Dublin castle.
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