The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-26
IRISH STAGE RIOT
 AT SIGHT OF BRITISH FLAG IN NEW YORK
Hundreds of Sim Fein Symph- thizers Take Part In Attack on Union Club. Smashing
 Windows, Injuring Many
By Associated

1 New York. November eF usual
 quiet observance of Th o~rs ng Day
 here was violently iut 1sf5 a shortly
 after roon when crowq 52% lad attend
 ed high requiem p memory of Terence MacSwiney. f lord mayor
 of Cork, rioted at of a British flag decorating tls of the Union
 club across r4fthl $ from St Pat rieks cathedral.
 After a fight participated in by hum
 dreds of Irish sympathizers. in the course of which plate glass windows of the club were shattered by missils hurled by mem bers of the mob, order was restored when
 a corion of 200 police established itself around the building, The Union Jack which was the cause of the assault though taken down at the first demand of the crowds and subsequently replaced still was draped over the sidewalk with the emblems of France and the United States when the fracas ended. When the clamor of the first rush on the offending banner was at Its height of St Patricks, clad in ministerial robes the Right Rev. Michael J, i-avell rector rushed out of the church and pleaded in vain with the leaders to quell the dis turbance.
 After mounted and motorc, ele police had dispersed the assauting forces survey of the, field os battle revealed cas- ualties including a dozen or more slight
 ly injured who had been struck py ny ing bricks. All windows on the lower floor of the club had been smashed. Before the beginning of the MacSwiney mass. the attendance at which taxed the capacity of the great cathedral, oeie- gation of Irish requested that the British flag be removed. The club saiperahtenhens complied. but later, on instructions frsm club officials, the flag vas deplacea When the service was over the xfag again caught the attention of belNSswehs members of the congregation, vi'tp wete angered at the reappeafance e Sne atH- lblen. Stones and bricks wee pKesNe4 from a nearby building unus tA z skSfI tion and the attack began
 A riot call at first browl r issf' lice, Jssir on foot.~ chess 8Isssf ately using tiseir nigh a2fT 8tfs N were powerless agaits i,ss n ss " suos. Only after the arrit lieii.s a's Of three times tn ss3s W peI uio the officers succeed pack tne attackers " Four arrests on chargef malictous mischief were made
 The MacSwiney memorial service was
 attended by many prominent Irish hefe,
 including Eamonn de Valera, president of the Irish republic.' who occupied
 place in the front pew. Moosignor La yelle paid a tribute to the former mayer of Cork, who died after q hunger sirike in Brixton prison, London. calling Elm a man whose high record prociaims him just, whose deeds make him hero among his fellows and whose name VIII i've in the memory of the world"
 ATTACK CLUB MEMBERS
 At the outset of the trouble, club
 members said later. crowd of 30 men
 and two women pushed aside the door
 man and entered the club. Teifair
 Mentin. a lecturer on flags. and several
 members met the visitors. Well give
 YOU five minutes to take the English
 flag in" one of them said, according
 to MT. Mentin. Al temps 10 reason witf
 the invaders were unsuccessful and
 MT. Mentin declared the crowd attacked
 him and the other club members, in-
 flicting several minor cuts and injuries upon MT. Mentin.
 three policemen appeared, and lively battle ensued within the building be-
 fore the men and women were elected. During the fighting. the flag wal
 taken down for the first time. After a conference with other club officers. or ders were given to replace the flag. and in the meantime police reserves were summoned.