Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-05
MS IRELAND DRIFTING
TOWARD DESTRUCTION
StHtistics Showing Justification for
Both Sides Arc Issued. but Con-
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IN ifiGN CtRHhN.
e. sllBl.lS. sept i.-lrCl"ud has not
4 Rii,adc any advance towards peace. In
4sSttced, we are sun IN thc mud sting
SING stage. Tho rival PARTIES stand
l5ssSlahginS one another while ihc Ccuu-
ssEtTS drifts towards destruction and
SsslisaSter.
Y piihlisheh which give better than aus-
iesihsaS yet al appreciation o. Trio situa-
,ssstton through which wc ar" passing
Tho; government i'm order no doubt TO
L fauStifS the STRONGER action which has
\ Ehsen so often f0rocastcd published
the casualties for the mon!h of July.
i stsommnns by lloyd George last nicht
las follows. nttccu policemen killed
f# Ei:. thirty wounded; four military
sG1hrco civilians Killed and five wound
So That is the record for ono month
E#4nd he thought il Justified him tn say
Ting that he mad no Intention OF prS.-
Iyss fSsninE ihc nome RIO bill. ,';EoHGlt
ES Mr., Deyiin Informed him tha; i VAS
s5lWas responsible mainly fer these
sScrimcs.
Another So, OF figures no less sipri-
ssHcant weHc cited from the other side
Thy Thomas Tarren "a; the Irish Labor
e%Party's conference Al Cork yesterday.
irish Side Given.
~ During the past four years. he
said. tho acts OF aggression against
&the Irish nation We're appalling
sseyeniyfIve people were murdered,
y 2.il2 were dcportcd. there we're G53
Warmed assaults on uuarmcd civilians,
81 10000 raids on private houses. i.j9i
arrests. Eliza sentences, il5 nrociama-
biions and suppressions iifty-three
Il newspapers Mere suppressed and
i there Were 5@2 court-;uastials, and in
Raddition several towns Werc sacked
ri alss 8 n.
E sands OF pounds destroyed They had
4 10 endure all this agony because the
( people OF Ireland refused 20 submit
Z TO foreign domination"
az AT this junCturc tho heads o. the
q two leading churches in ireland. car
s. dinnl IeEue Of the Catho!ic Church.
primat". arpear simultaneously in the
( n"wspa pers appealing for peace, and
3 the !"aGiuc 'i1.nNist newspaper. the
Irish Times. loads Tor PRAYER that a
paper says: If Cardinal Loguc and
Ai. A., PArcy-I1,if II the Roma!
The chnrch Of ' Ir.land an and " tho bSads
of the Presbyterian and Methodist
( chnrches--cou!d agrc. 10 make q CON
mon appeal 10 Ireland would not that
fine act of Christian faith and charity
carry equal blessing to Belfast aud
Z Cork? Such unity would he almost
q reached stage whore. perhaps. moth
ing Shor; or miracle can save Ire
Z land"
Not Read, for Settlements
Z There is no question rs to the gen
eral support on he question OF peace.
but there is yet no ono "on the
bridge the man who car deliver tho
goods. who WAS called for by Lloyd
tGeorse. has not yet appeared Sim
Fem, as il seems TO many observers
sulks sullenly and viii not come for.
ward and negotiate. liut rs ! Under
stand II the position is This. There is
n growing disposition that tho gov
6rrnment should offer 10 S!nn Fc!n fun
dominion home rule. Butt, Is said
Sim Fein gives no sign OF acceptance /
The answer Is that Sim Fem SAYS II
has received no genuine offers ana I'm I
any case. II knows that Lloyd George
even II he made tho offer-which he I
has not donc-coulh not deliver tho .
goods. because certain superior now, .
ers would not allow him That In
brief IS The position. and that IS
why Sim Fcin - silent and that is
Why the shooting and the guerilla /
warfare 20 or. Obviously the s;lua-
ton is not ripe for settlement and in .
ylhst case, we must hc prepared for
more blooGshco