The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-19
Ex-Soldiers Use Bombs in Fight
With British Troops.
Two Are Killed and Nearly
Hundred Are Wounded.
BRITISH PAPERS ARE ROUSED
Crime Wave in Ireland Called
"POliticaI Murders
Battle Started Early in Even
ing-Lasted Until 3 a. m.

Cork. July 19.-Feeling ran high
here today as result of clashes be-
tween British troops and demobiiized
soldiers. and further outbreaks OF riot
ing were feared. Sixty men have been
wounded in the fighting
A crowd of armed men blew up two
military lorries which were returning
TO their barracks today
Two Men Were Killed.
This attack followed a night Of ter
ror into which the city plunged as a
result of street fighting in which Sim
felners and the military participated
Two men were killed and some
forty were wounded in the gun fight
ing which brought the total of cas-
ualties well over the one hundred
mark. The Sim Feiners' used the
guerrilla tactics which had been out
lined in the plan of the campaign OF
the Republican army.
Fighting broke out following a
bayonetting incident in the street
in which former soldier was killed.
About 10 p. m. indiscriminate firing
Nstarted in virtually all sections Of The
city. The casualties reported up to
TINS morning were one dead and
fourteen wounded
Several Girls Injured.
The firing. which was participated
in, II is stated. by military patrols in
motor lorries and armored cars,
caused CONSERVATION Frightened
women and children hurried into side
streets and doorways and knocked
Irant1cally at numerous houses for
admission. Volunteer patrols hurried
20 their assistance. but several Young
girls and former soldiers already had
been hit by flying bullets and were
taken to the hospital.
Most OF the casualties occurred in
the northern part of the city where
the infirmary staff deah with the
more serious cases, retailing the worst
ara sending the other wounded home
after giving them treatment.
After midnight the streets were
comparatively quiet. with the military
tpatroling them Their was occasional
firing up to o'clock this morning. !.
Call 1t Political Murder.
London, July 1e.-"This was a no.
litical murder whose flagrancy and
brutality equals any thus far perpe-
trated in Ireland" the Times declar red
today in commenting on the killing
of Commissioner Smythe of the royai
Irish consta bulary by a band of armed
nen in Cork.
Inspector Craig was wounded In a
hand to hand fight with raiders
The Daily Express said: The peo-
pie are sick and tired of this coward
ly savagery. These murders pierce all
Indifference
Government Blamed
The Chronicle blamed the govern
ment for not giving police adequate
protection in Ireland. This brutal
murder is one OF these insane acts
which will reduce even the warmest OF
Ireland's friends almost to despair
Armed men raided n railway par
cells office at Kingstown, seizing a
package believed to contain arms and
ammunition.
The weekend crime wave included
killing of Constable Masterson near
: Dublin by1a party of armed Sim Fefn-
ers, who esca ped.
Trains Are Robbed.
| An outgoing train from E.urea ~n~
! held up at Lapineh and a lareH duan-
tity of military baggage and official
mail stolen.
The residence Of Robert Barton. a
member of the lash republican par
: Lament in County wicklow, who ia
q now in jail, was raided by 200 troops.
: Airplanes lowered over the heads of
. the troops while the house was being
ransacked for incriminatory evidence.