New-York tribune., 1920-09-28
Uniformed Men Put T orch
to Village of Trim After
Constable Is Wounded
i'm Attack ON Barracks
Sinn Feiner's' Homes
In Dublin Raided
Explosion Shakes Cork,
Wrecking Its Largest
Shop; Rioting i'm Belfast
By Frank GETTY

copyright, 1890, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Sept. 27.-Another Irish
town is partly in ruins tonight as the
result Of police reprisals. The police
barracks at Trim, an ancient little
town in County Meath, noted for its
archaeological interest and feudal and
ecclesiastical ruins, was captured by a
hundred armed men last night and
burned after the head constable had
been wounded.
When a report Of the injury Of the
oHlcer reached the neighboring bar
racks armed uniformed men descended d
upon the town and attacked and burned
many houses. They fired volleys
through the streets, wounding many in
habitants and forcing hundreds to flee
in terror from the village.
Telegraph Lines Severed
Telegraph lines were cut, preventing
full reports reaching Dublin, thirty
miles away, but fears were expressed
there that Trim had become another
Balbriggan.
Arthur Griffiths's telegram to Eamon
de Valera, suggesting that the Irish
Americans Of each state adopt for re-
lief one Irish town devastated by the
police is regarded here as merely q
clever bit of Sim Fein propaganda
but it has succeeded in causing a good
deal Of annoyance in this country. II
has drawn public attention to the DO
lice reprisals, and there is Il consider
able demand for an official explanation
or denial of Macready's reported in
terview, in which he is quoted as say.
ing, regarding the punishing of the po.
lice for reorlsels, ~ ie's delicate mat
ter"
Sinn F&iners' Homes Raided
T There was great police and military
activity in Dublin to-day, many houses
Of prominent Sim Fkiners being
raided. Among those arrested were
the Countess Marcievicz, the first
woman elected to the British House of
Commons, and Sean MacBride, son of
the famous Maud Come MacBride,
whose husband was executed after the
rebellion of 1916. The countess, who
herself commanded company of
rebels during the fighting of Easter
week, was arrested in the Harcourt
Street railway station.
The home of George Gavan Duffy,
Sim Fein Ambassador to Paris, was
searched
Cork Shaken by Explosion
Cork was shaken sby terrific ex-
plosion at a. M, to-day. A rigidly i'm
posed curfew rule prevented details of
the affair from reaching England, al
though the English correspondents de-
clare that there were other explosions
lasting over considerable time. The
largest shop in the city was damaged,
the police say, by a bomb. Some of the
correspondents ascribe the explosion to
police reprisals for the attempted
shooting of Major General Strickland.
AS expected, the shooting of four
policemen in Belfast and the reprisals
visited upon the Sim Feiners led to
further sectarian rioting in that city
last night and to-day. Shipping and
stone throwing were general on the
fringes of the disputed areas. Twenty
five persons were wounded in street
battles. curfew law has been imposed
again in the Ulster capital.
Panic Among Belfast Crowds
BELFAST, Sept. 27 (By The Asso-
ciated Press) The shooting last night
caused a panic among the crowds
which were promenading on Royal
Avenue, the city's main artery, after
church hours.
Snipers in the side streets of The Sim
Fein quarter fired into North Street,
which crosses Royal Avenue. A tram
car in North Street came into the line
of fire and there was great alarm
among the passengers, who, with the
driver, crouched on the floor until the
car had turned into Royal Avenue. The
tramcar traffic later had to be diverted
to another route.
AS the crowd raced along Royal
Avenue in wild disorder a number of
shots were discharged in Rosemary
Street, which is on the southern side
of the avenue, creating panic about
the Castle Street junction, the most
crowded spot in the city, from which
all tramcar traffic starts