Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-12-23
BRITISH FORCES.
SEIZE BUILDINGS
Dublin Municipal Officials
Kept Public Ser.
vice Disorganized
Former T.. S. Soldier Testifies Seeing
Black and Fan Outrases-No Long
cr Safe Street cf Cork Says Witness

Dublin, Dec. 23.-Military forces
today occupied the City Hall and
municipal buildings in accordance with
the demand Monday Of General Boyd
commander Of the Dublin district,
who sent a. notice to the Dublin cor
poration requiring possession Of the
1:-ila.ngs by today. a large portion
of the public services will be disor-
ganiZed, as no other offices have been
secured.
Sentries were posted and the cree
zion Of dcfcnses carried out early
Yesterday morning. When the city Of
ficials arrived only the Town Clerk.
his assistant and two employees in h:s
department were allowed 10 enter.
There IS no truth in the rumors
tnat negotiations for peace in Ireland
nave been broken off, the Aszociat-
ed Press is authoritatively Informed.
There has been only hitch in the
peace discussions and the belief IS
expressed that the negotiations soon
will be resumed with good prospects
of success.
1t is reported that Archbishop
Clune has returned to London for fur
ther consultation with Premier Lloyd
Gea,ee The Archbishop, on his spre-
Evious trip to Londcn, is said to have
obtained from the Premier an outline
of the terms on which the Govern
mcnt is ready to arrange a truce with
the republican, army and some idea Of
the conditions the Government sprc-
pared to grant the Sim Fein, for a
settlement Of the question Of inGe-
pendence.
Washington. Dec. ga character
eaton of the Black and Taas in Ire
and as wholly without discipline ani
not responsible to anybody" was
given yesterday by a former corporal
n the United States Army IN reply
TO request of the commission Of the
Committee of One Hundred invess!-
eating the I,fsh question for "an
appraisal through the eyes of So
lier. of English forces in Ireland. :
Daniel J. Broderick. of Chicago.
Who said he served on the Mexican
sordcr before the Wor,a War and in
he navy during hostii;t:es, told the
commission that ''f enlisted men OF
he American military services took
INTO their own hands reprisa,s aga!ns:
he people cf occupied territory as the
Black and Tans and English soldiers
. in Ireland, they would be tried BY
Eourtmartial and sentenced to on!:
|erqns in military prisons"
B,oderick, who returned to This
curtry December after visit to
bbey Feale, Ireland, said he had
N addressed by a member of the
< and Tans as cone of those
= who won the war" He was
arched on one occasion az the point
[ pistol. he declared, and upon
ointing out his American citizenship
-as told I'VE dent care If ycu are
he President of the United States
gu are going to be searched" y
Brcderick said he had witnessed the
Fllaginc cf homes by "drunken Blac:;
nd Tans." the pot" shooting CT
ntle by English soldiers and ths
founding of little girl by the Mill
hly.
He added that one of the, Black and
ans and a member of the Royal irish
pns. .abulary had showed him Their
n.nunition. which nc said consisted
soft-nosed bullets. nodded of lead
nd fiat on the end.
The witness described several kiln
attributed to Black and Tans ana
; searching and abuse of ndvi,
*" ~
Lerhers of the commission hearj
ON Miss Susannahr Walsh q. stor!
the killing Of her hrctherln-laN
a late Lord Mayor,,of Cork.
Miss Annie Walsh. her sister. &c
ared that Boy Scouts had been XII
BY Blaca; and Tar$. Firemen fight
ng fines of ;ncendiary origin, 81
lid repeatedly a~e fired upon oy III
Hilary. T..
1T is ro longer safe. 70. Be or h
reses in Cork" She sad. A"fhe pea
E hurry straight hcmss~ from wmo:lk::