Arizona republican., 1920-07-26

IRISH SITUATION IS ! MOST ALARMING IN
 4O YEARS |S CLAIM LONDON, July 25-Sir Horace Plun- kett, founder of the Irish dominion league and leader of the moderate Irish
 nationalist opinion. told a New Castle
 audience today that the situation in Ireland is more alarming than within
 his knowledge of 40 years.
 A similar view is reflected by the newspapers of England and Ireland It found expression in the speeches Thursday in the house of commons, even Sir Edward Carson declaring he
 had never known anything like the state of anarchy prevailing and that "in three-quarters of Ireland the
 British government has been entirely
 beaten" Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief
 secretary of Ireland, warned the coun-
 try to brace itself against a bitter period in Irish history.
 The rioting in Belfast subsided today but there are plenty of signs that the luIl is only temporary. Both from
 Premier Lloyd Georges statement to the labor delegation Thursday and from Sir Hamar's speech. it is con-
 sidered apparent that the government
 believes a parting of the ways has been reached. One road leads toward negotiation with the Sim Fein on the basis of dominion form of government,
 ward the bitter period which Sir Hamar foresees, with more soldiers
 and stricter laws for repression, fore
 most among them one for the trial of criminals by summary courts and the giving up up of attempts to induce jurymen to answer to a summons.
 Make Ready For New Outburst : BELFAST, July 25.-Military. which is being steadily reinforced, was busy in Belfast today for. despitf a steady downpour of rain, the authorities were
 taking no chances of dampening the enthusiasm of the rioters.
 Barricades were strengthened with sandbags and more wire was stretched.
 The precautions were not ill-timed for early this morning another saloon in the Falls road district was wrecked and the premises of certain hardware
 merchants met similar fate. Police are ineffective, and soldiers
 have been brought to restore order. Newtonards road and neighboring streets which have been so badly wrecked. presented a dismal appear ance today
 Rival factions stood in groups ready l at any signal for a renewal of the strife, having appai ently ignored the appeals made from the pulpits of all
 sects today to avoid provocative at | titude
 l There was quite an exodus of Catho- l lie families from the protestant sec | ton of Ballyma scarrett. Drays were busy all day long moving furniture
 from residences which might be the | object of attack to the other side Of | the city. where Catholics predominate.
 Soldiers guarded the drays. There are still many Catholics in Protestant districts and Protestants in Catholic districts who have no hope of making a 1 change. The authorities, however, are l taking precautions against any attempt | by either faction to march across the
 city and attack a rival district. Death List Mounts To 17 1 BELFAST, July 25.-There was no | 1 the worst disturbance was some win | dow smashing. The death list from l the recent fighting between the union l ists and the Sim Fein factions | reached IT today, when two women 1 and a man died-
 While quiet prevailed today, few l could be found who would proclaim
 the disturbance completely over, for | passions have been aroused which are | not easily quieted.
 1 Many reasons are given for last weeks outbreak in Belfast which last
 night spread to Bangor and Lisburn, | where great damage was done. l The footing of two residences and 1 a spirits shop in Ballymacarret, a
 suburb of Belfast, Saturday night was done by crowd of youths. A baton | charge served to drive the looters
 home. The soldiers refrained from l using their firearms.
 There was a fight between the two
 factions in the Falls road district, the only sufferers being police, two | being wounded
 Soldiers Guard Worshippers | Services were held in St. Matthew s | chapel, one of the storm centers, this morning under unusual circumstances. l The church was surrounded by barbed | wire entanglements, soldiers forming a guard for the worshippers. At Bangor, where many workers of | bGlIdSL TeSlQ6Y SdlOOHS stltb pdW II 1 brokers were the chief sufferers. The 1 police and military restored order | without the use of firearms. l At Ballynahinch there was also an | outbreak Saturday night. Windows | were smashed and attempts were made | to burn the houses. These outbreaks | are considered serious as they show ! that the trouble radiating out of Bel | fast may become general.
 The military at Derry were called | upon to separate the rival factions | Saturday night which came into con- | flict at Bishops gate.
 Soldiers were attacked and revolver shots were fired, one man being | wounded, but training of machine l guns on the streets brought the situa- l tion back to normal
 There are two extreme factions in | Ireland now, the Orangemen of the north, who insist upon maintaining | the Irish system as it is and the Sim 1 Feiners, who demand independence. Between these policies lies the middle CContinued on page ?