New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-25
Black and ans
Sack 3 More
Irish Villages
Police, i'm Reprisals for
Murders, Burn All but
len Houses i'm Miltown:
People Flee to the Hills
Oltirnatum to Balbriggan
Threaten to Destroy Town if
Public Funerals Are Held :
MacSwiney Much Weaker
BY Frank Gettv

FROM Ihe Tffbunc's Europeun bureau
Copyright, 1890. New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Sept. 24.-News reached
London to-day of the sacking of three
more Irish towns by the "black and
tans," making eight this week which
have suffered from reprisal raids by
this new government police force.
The harvest fields of County Glare
and vicinity were the scene Wednesday
OF the ambush of a police lorry, in
which five policemen were killed be
fore the lorry was set .afire. Serious
destruction of property and some loss
of life followed in the towns of Mil.
town, Malbay, Lahinch, Ennistymon
Doonbeg, Bealaha and Cree. Balbrig.
gan is the eighth town to suffer from
the police reprisals.
Only ten houses in Midtown escaped
damage. Many were destroyed by the
incendiary fires. Eyewitness report
that uniformed men rushed through
smashing windows and destroying
property wherever possible. Houses
were fired after kerosene had beer
poured into them from lorres. Sol
diers from neghborine barracks
helped the citizens fight the danes,
The local police also assisted in the
rescue of the inhabitants whose lives
were endangered by the flames.
Inhabitants Flee to Hills
Similar scenes were enacted at La
hlnch, where many of the inhabitants
were forced to flee to the sand hills
north of the town, where they spent
the night in great suffering and terror
One man was shot dead by the "black
and tans" and another was mortally
wounded
At Ennistymon five houses were
fired and two men were killed. Hay
ricks between Lahinch and Ennistvmon
were burned.
Official inquiries into these activities
of the police are being instituted. The
investigation at Balbriggan, where In
spector John Burke of the Royal Irish
Constabulary was shot early this week
has been suspended pending the recov-
cry of his wounded brother, Sergeant
Burke, whose testimony is necessary
In an inquiry at Abbeyteale a police
man told of the shooting of two civil
ians, saying that they ran from him
and after shouting to them to halt
he shot both dead.
The continued prohibition of she
coroner's inquest in the case Of the
Sim Fem councillor Lynch, who was
slain by the "black and tans" at the
Royal Exchange Hotel in Dublin, is
adding to the public incredulity of the
official version that he was shot while
trying to escape
An order to-day forbidding parades
Of Sim Fem volunteers at funerals is
bitterly resented, especially in view OF
the possibility of funeral at Cork
at an early date.
In connection with the banning OF
funeral parades, the inhabitants of
Balbriggan have been notified by the
"black and tans" that the destruction
of their town will be completed if the
victims of the former raid are buried
publicly. Consequently the Repub-
licans attribute the new order to the
influence of the "black and tans" anc
are asking whether the official govern
ment or the new police force is the
real ruler of Ireland.
BY dynamiting the safe in the Dublin
General Postoffce early To-day after
overpowering the lone night Waterman
two unidentified armed men obtained
more than $4,000 in cash and escaped
1t is believed that the maraudcrs
were members of gang of twenty
(ContInued on paae thrce)