The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-21
British Auxiliary Police Take
Bloody Reprisals.
BaIbriggan Wrecked, Houses
and Factories Burned.
RESUME GUERRILLA WARFARE
Clashes Between Sim Fein aad
Troops on Increase.
Irish Reds Now Boldly Attacks
ing Men in Uniform.

Dublin. Sept. 21. Increasing fre-
quency Of clashes between Sim Fein-
ers and government forces today indi.
Gated a resumption of guerrilla war
fare.
Sporadic fighting between soldiers
and Sim Feiners took a death toll
yesterday when Inspector Burke of
the police was shot dead from am
bush. His brother, Sergeant Burke.
was seriously wounded. Fairly in the
heart of the city a mass of ''repub-
hcans" descended upon a small party
of soldiers. There was a sharp fight,
two soldiers and two civilians being
wounded.
There were minor clashes thruout
the district.
Take Bloody Reprisals.
Auxiliary police forces last rfg1f,
wrecked the town of Balbriggau ~
here III retaliation for the shooEng
of two police officers there earlier
in the evening, when District Inspector
Burke was killed and his brother, Ser
geant Burke, was seriously wounded.
Two civilians were shot dead and
several persons wounded. Many houses
were set on fire and the largest hosiery
factory in ireland. belonging to an
English firm, was destroyed.
This morning the town was IN ter
ror. and streams of refugees in al
sorts of vehicles were abandoning the
place for neighboring villages.
Whole Town Wrecked.
Shortly after midnight uniformed
men appeared in the streets, evidently
bent on reprisals for the shooting of
the police official. They Immediately
proceeded to wreck the town.
The public houses were entered and
! wmmN-
vate homes. whose occupants were
given little time to dress before the
buildings were burned.
Many of the business houses, includ-
ing the big hosiery mills OF Decides
Templer & Company, were destroyed.
The town is one OF the centers OF
hosiery manufacture and power loom
Two Citizens Killed.
1t is reported that the two civilians
who were killed. a dairyman and a
! barber, were dragged from their
I houses, bayonetted and then shot.
| A number of houses belonging to
prominent Sim Feiners were set on
fire and all together twenty-eight resi-
dences are reported to have been
burned to the ground. The sacking OF
the town was carried out by fifty aux
/ iliary police, known as black and
tans'' from their uniforms. Today
these police werc reported to be de-
claring they would return tonight to
complete the destruction of the town.
Reports said today police had made
i further reprisals in Tuam and Car
rick Shannon. Details of the en-
gagements were missing. Tuam is in
County Galway and Carrick-on-Shan-
non is in LeitTim.
To Drive Out Terrorists.
Major General MacReady. com-
manding British forces, intimated to-
day the government was considering
driving out of Ireland the known
terrorists who are making all the
trouble"
MacReady's statement followed two
days of small skirInishing and am
| bushing which resulted in the deaths
of several loyalists.
'In case of a general revolt" said
MaeReady, I'VE are ready-perfectly
ready. A small band OF known ter
rorists is causing all the trouble and
the day may come when we will have
to make a definite clearance of them -