Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-18
IRISH DON'T WANT
I. REPUBLIC LIKE Us
Secretary Of Trades Congress
Says Personal Liberty is
Unknown Here
1000 TROOPS SENT TO CORK

Cork. May lS.--CBy \. Pl-Two
thousand troops from England were
landed at Bantry Saturday and immcdi-
ately distributed throughout West Cork.
where they will be stationed at points
five miles apart. Troops to the number
Of $50 also arrived at Skibbcrccn. They
comma ndecrcd several buildings. iuclud-
Ing the town hall, where they made
their quarters
Thomas johnson, acting secretary Of
III, trades congress. declared at labor
meeting in the City Hall hero. Sun
day that the workers of Ireland had no
Intention of establishing such n rcpub-
lie as that in America. whore the very
idea of personal liberty was unknown.
he said. and whore men and women were
sentenced TO long terms Of imprison-
ment for daring to say that America
was not land of freedom,
London. May lS.--(By \. p
Questioned in Commons on the number
of troops being sent TO ireland, Andrew
Bonar Law, the government leader, re-
piled:
II have no information to give on
the subject. but we are sending and
shall send whatever troops are asked
for by the Irish executive.
Scotland Yard is investigating the
whereabouts of thirty four Sim FCin
hunger strikers who on Sunday left
the Marlcybonc infrnary in London,
where they were undergoing treatment,
and also twenty three who left another
London hospital. The Sim FNinors
left because Of alleged dissatisfaction
with the ratiOns
Londonderry. May lS.--tRy \. r. -
Londonderry. after two nights of riot
ing, was again the scene Ot riotouS
demonstrations yesterday. The city was
in state Of high tension. and hum
dreds of men remained away from their
work. walking about the streets. where
many individual encounters occurred be.
tween Sim Fcincrs and uriOniStS.
Last night. while unionist workers
were leaving the gas works. they were
attacked by n mob and maltrPated.
4 large force Of troops arrived this
evening The disturbed areas are well
cordoned and crowds are not allowed to
assemble. The magistrates have decided
70 proclaim martial law.
Rioting Sunday night between ma
tionalist and unionist mobS was oven
fercer than that of saturday Bottles.
employed by the combatantS and many
more shop windows were broken.
Groups of men aud women in the
uniouiSt quarter of Fountain street and
similar groups in the Sim Fcn quarter
OF Bridge street followed an exchange
OF party cries with stone and bottle
throwing. Then more than one hundred
revolver shots followed. In addition to
the killing Of an ox-soldier named
Dohcrty. three persons were wounded
When the hostilities began the police
In the disturbed area were withdrawn
and for few hours mob law was
supreme.
Armed and masked men who held
Carlisle Bridge as sort Of no man :
land" Saturday night. took possession
again Sunday night and there was in.
discriminate revolver shooting. Ma.
tionalsts who previously had used tEc
bridge to reach the water side were
compelled TO employ rowhoats.
Dublin. May lS.-Countcss Georgia
Markievicz. Sim fcin member Of parIIn
ment. whose whereabouts has long hccu
mystery. made n theatrical rc-an.
pearanCe Sunday, clad in a command.
ants uniform at an open air meeting
in Croker Park in memory of the mem-
hprs Of the Irish republican parliamon,
who were executed after or killed dur
ing the rebellion Of 1916. Tho countess
delivered an address in which she np.
pealed for support for Irish industries.
Sir John Taylor. under secretary in
the Irish administration, who it was
reported last month would resign. has
returned to Dublin and resumed his
duties.
Two police barracks in I.imcrirk
were destroyed yesterday That the
burning Of police barracks arc really acts
Of war. and that. therefore, tho taXpay.
ers ought not 10 be held responsible. but
any compensation awarded for damage,
should be provided for by Parliament,
was the kernel Of resolution adoptcd
today by the County Clare executive
committee Of tho Farmers Union, a
nopT olitical organization.