The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-12-01
SUSPECTS WERE
SOON RELEASED
Were Thought to Be Agents
of the Sim Fem
Movement
WENT TO ENGLAND
FROM NEW YORK
Men Were Disarmed and
Allowed to Proceed to
London

London, Dec. six men arrested at
Southampton yesterday upon the ar
rival of the liner Aquitania from New
York were released here to-day by pc.
lice officials. When they were arrested
it was announced they were suspected
Of being agents of the Sim Fem.
Revolvers were found on the six men,
but they asserted they were ignorant
of the recently enacted firearms act,
which forbids the importation OF those
weapons. They were closely questioned
and their weapons were confiscated be-
fore they were placed on a train com
ing to this city, When they reached
here they were asked to go to Scot
land Yard. They refused to talk TO re-
porters and their identities were not
disclosed.
The bodies of the Is auxiliary police
recruits who were killed near Kilmi.
chael, county Cork, Ireland, on Sunday
evening, will be brought to England
from Cork probably late this week
One recruit in the party has been miss
ing since the fight and has not as yet
been found.
Buildings housing Sim Fem organi
cations in this city and its suburbs
were raided by Scotland Yard detee-
tives yesterday and it is declared =
large quantity of documents were
seized. No arrests, so far as known,
were made.
Yesterday morning two men, sus.
peeted of being Sim Feiners, were
called from their beds and shot to
death. The tragedies occurred in the
county Louth and a military court of
inquiry has begun an investigation.
Details of Tragic Massacre Lacking.
Cork, Nov. 80 tBy the Associated
Press "Details of the tragic story of
Sunday evenings massacre near Kilmi-
chael. in which Is auxiliary police re-
cruits were shot to death, may never
come to light, The only available source
of information is the sole surviving
member of the party who was severely
wounded and is believed 20 be dying in
the military hospital here.
A meagre story of the event, gasped
out by the wounded man. has been
told officials sitting by his bedside. He
has declared that the party of recruits
met an armed band in marching in the
road, the men wearing khaki suits and
"tin hatsf' The recruits mistook them
in the fading light for soldiers, and
thus fell into an ambush.
Statements from other quarters indi.
rate that the humiliation of the party
of recruits can be accounted for only
on the theory that the road was mined
or a trench had been dug across it. So
far as is known there were nc casual
ties on the side of the as~ssilants.
The recruits left the village Of Mac
room early on Sunday to conduct raids
and searches i'm the country side
stretching toward Dunman. The entire
day was occupied with this work and
il was late in the evening when the
party started on its return journey.
One account of the incident states that
at a secluded spot a trench was dug
across the road and into it the leading
lorry plunged. The second lorry, which
was travelling fast. ran into the wrecked
car, it is said, and the occupants OF
both became easy victims of the men
who planned the attack. Police officials
at Maeroom we're ignorant of the trsg
edy until Monday, when a party was
sent to scour the country for the miss.
ing men.
Police authorities here still claim 10
be gaining the upper hand in the fight
against extremists. They assert the
men responsible for ambuscades and
as~sassinations are being driven to a
eovner They are receiving no nrotec. |
ton from the people and move abou;
the countryside in small bands, fore
ing farmers, II is declared, TO provide
them with food. Every man Of them is
known to us" said an official to-day,
so they do not dare to scatter and re-
turn to their homes because they know
they would be arrested Immediately. |
1t is only a question Of rounding them
up which may taken considerable time,
especially in mountainous country like
that surrounding the scene of Sunday
nights ambush"