The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-11-22
.REPR|sALSAR
IN PROGRESS FOR
SUNDAY KILLINGS
Soldiers and Black and Tans TAX
ing Revenge Today
25 SLAIN; 100 WOUNDED
Sim Feiners Sunday Morning surprs-
ed and Killed Fourteen British
Officers.

London, Nov. % Associated
sending OF additional troops to Ire
land is being seriously considered It
was stated at the war Office this after
noon.
London is waiting anxiously for
further news from Dublin following
the reports of yesterdays horrors but
only meagre dispatches are received
1t is indicated that at least twenty
five persons have been killed and up
wards Of a hundred more or less seri-
ously wounded.
Reports to the Irish Office said that
three or four unidentified persons
were killed in Dublin late last night.
Several policemen were killed in 9th
er parts of Ireland the Office announc-
ed.
A brief telephone message at eight
this morning reported the city at least
temporarily quiet. Meagre reports
during the night stated that shoot.
ing was going on as a sequel to yes
trdays assassinations and the subse-
quent clash between the military and
the crowd at the Dublin football field
Dublin, Nov. 21.-(By The Associat
ed Press Dublin became the scene
today of farspread murder and re-
prisal Not since the first outbreak
cf the vicious civil warfare that has
been shedding blood in Ireland have
the assassinatlons been so concerted
or the retaliation so swift and pro-
nounced.
Not less than IA men are dead in
the attacks arranged simultaneously
all over the city this morning The
method was the same in each case
and all the men assassinated were Of
ficers or ex.offieers, or otherwise in
the service Of the g0se-nment.
Small, bodies Of Mountaineering. gen
orally from six to eight, presented
them elves at various houses called
their victims cut or entered and Shot
| their victims in bed, while dressing or
at breakfast. The districts in which
1.-The murders we're committed were in
tsome instances close tCgether; others
were separted by miles, but all the
Rssassinations took Place about the
same hour 8 o'clock in the morning.
- In-the afternoon while a football
In the afternoon while football
match was in PROCESS at Croke
Park sixteen lorries filed with
auxiliary police moved swiftly up and
sure unded the place. Accounts differ
as TO what happened, when, after
mounting machine-guns on heights
above, the police broke through the
gates. The auxiliarles were hooted
and according to eye witnesses, first
fired in the air and then into III,
crowd II is declared from anc thel
source that Sim Fem pickets frs
fred on the government forces wher
they were seen approaching and tha
the first was returned
Within the park the great assem-
bly, of $1,000 became panic stricken
How many were killed is not know
as yet. but the estimates range from
ten to thirty or more. Several arr
reported to have been trampled t
death
The streets of Dublin on Sunday ar,
deserted in the morning hours.
Those who had planned the murde
Of the officers and government EN-
ployees moved Systematically to thei
task They committed the assass
nations without disguise. and al
made their escape.
. Galway ireland, Nov 2l.-The bod
Of Father Griffin the priest who disa
peared several days ago, was foun
| yesterday in shallow grave abou
! cur miles from Galway. There wa
( a bullet wound in his temp'e
The body OF Father Griffin, who wa
p the curate Of Bushy Park, was foun