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SAYS MANNIX BAR
WILL AID SINN FE|N
Leader Claims Lloyd George s
Action Will Enhance Inter
est in Cause
nv Associated Pros- n Fve-y Evruirr

Dublin july 20 Frank Brooke. dep
trty lieutenant for county wicklow,
Leinstrr province. was shot dead n The
Westlandrow Station IN Dublin today, Just
after aliRhting from q train It's as
sailants escaped
Brooke was chairman If the Dublin
and southeastern railway and land agent
of the FitzwiIliam estates ~ Ireland
The latest act ~ violence follows the
announcement Of Bonar Law, government
leader in the House Of Commons, that
hill to deal with Irish disorders would be
introduced next week Lloyd George
said Yesterday that the bill would be
drastic and that whatever happened Ire
land would not be allowed to leave the
empire.
Dublin, July 30-Arthur Griffith,
founder ~ the Sinn Fem, today charac-
terized Lloyd Georges refusal to allow
Archbishop Mannix If Australia to land
in ireland. a. fine propaganda for the
Sim Fein because he said II would cn-
hance interest in the cause N AMERICA
and in Australia and other British
domInI0ns
He will get great reception when
he comes. said Griffith But he will be
elect ions have shown that s. per cent Of
the people are republican
Referring to suggestions Of compro-
mise between the Sim Fem and the gov
eminent. Griffith said that representatives
nf the Irish people were willing 70 neRo-
tate with England on equal terms. hut
Ireland did not intend 10 be tricked rs 50
often in the PAST
A. Tan 70 hes n ra
continued, the Sim Fem would negotiate
with England along the lines Of the FIRST sec
ton Of the Plat amendment regarding
Cuba
In fact. once free. il would be 70 Ire
land interest to be on friendly terms with
England, her best customer Had Ire
land been independent IN the late war
she would have sided with England. be-
cause II England had been defeated it
would have been Ireland's turn next.
However. We now are free nation, with
our parliament and courts IN being There
is no question of dominion home rule.
Acts of violence continue IN Ireland
and designations 81 Irish police are IN
creasing and exceed an average Of FIVE
daily. Sim Fem headquarters directed
Sim Fem clubs to persuade the men 20
resign.
Recruits for the police greatly exceed
designations. but they are obtained by
advertisement in England.
Two military lorries carrying armed
soldiers from Mill Street TO Ballingary
we're captured by Sim Fein soldiers,
taken to the mountains and burned
One civilian and three military police
have been wounded outside the Bank Of
Ireland during an attempt to disarIn
the military police.
The Westmeath police barracks have
been burned 4 soldier has been shot
dead In a fight between soldiers and Irish
volunteers at Bruree, county Limerick.
Irish railway men who have dislocated
traffic and caused a food shortage in
some places BY refusing to move trains
carving munitions and armed guards,
claim to have won AT least a partial VIC
tory over the government. 1t is announc-
ed that military guards henceforth viii
not be furnished for goods sent by all and
that it is not at present proposed TO use
the railways for the transport Of munitions
The railroaders assert that the govern
ments latest decision is a ehmbdown.