The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-04

OF the Balbriggan reprisals. II was
said that three men on the list were
killed the same night that BURKE wa
slain and that four others were killed.
later. While II is impossible for obvious
reasons to check up on this, the state-
ment was borne out by accounts 'ial
the Black and Tans" in searching ioI
persons against whom charges We
made are known to have taken certAii
persons from houses and killed tleii,
forthwith These accounts are receiVeo
frequently from many sections OF ire
land and come from British sources as
Goes the report of the vengeance eAAe
for the killing OF Burke.
The actual killings in reprisai naeo
lot stirred up the British public haii as
much as the indiscriminate purhinss
which accompanied the vengeance
The laxness OF discipline in the BLACK
and Tan" force is accounted Tor by .he
character of the men enlisted in that
organization. While many of them nave
fine military records II must be rennein-
hered that they are the flotsam OF the
great war and are unable TO get pach
INTO civil life. The Evening star pun
fishes an interview this week Win one
CT them WHO had resigned. lie asserteo
there wGs no discipline in the parrachS ;
that there was much drinking uuIhs
the course of reprisal raids anu l,ae
when these raids occurred generaiiS
there were no officers present.
Threaten Ambassador to u. -
Obviously Il ia difficult to handle such
force-difiicult 70 carry out ths p'','
to give the Sim Fem a dose oil theiI
the "Black and Tans' by discipline ana
this fact probably Influenced Cen sr
Nevil Macready, commanding the GOV
eminent forces In Ireland, when ne
stated that ''reprisals were only human.
AT the same time Sir Hamar Green
wood, Chief Secretary for lreiahu' ~
determined that the indiscrimlnaee
burnings must end.
The Sim Fein meanwhile are by no
means idle. Although the authorities IN
Ireland believed they had circumventeu
plots for q series of killings by the sim
Fein in the evnt any one of the munger
strikers in the Cork prison should die' OF
in the event of the death or ference
MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, VINO Is
on a hunger strike in Brixton frison'
London. the Sim Fein yesterday poidly
returned the body of Capt. Lendrum'
resident magistrate. WIZ ui'"pPoS-@~N
ten days ago, despite the alleged threat
by the police that five towns would De
burned II he were killed.
Wild reports are current regarding
what Is intended in the event Mac
Swiney dies One of them is that taxi
cabs filed with high explosives VIII De
crashed into the irish Office and the
Treasury in London. Others are that
the Lord Mayor Of London viii be as
sassinated ana other violence committed
in England. 1t was even reported that
they would attempt to take the lie OF
Sir Auckland Geddes. British Ambassa-
dor to the United States, which report
went with the tid-bit that IL Sir Auck-
land Is killed De Valera also will die.
Whatever actually may be Intended by
the Sim Fein. one thing is certain. and
that is there is the greatest police ac-
tivlty in Scotland Yard and elsewhere
in London. while the Irish ofiice is closed.
being carefully guarded by plainclothes
men, and the Mansion House is closed
to all persons except those proving their
Identity and their business.