The Cordova daily times., 1921-12-08

The fighting in Dublin lasted until April 90. and the property damage
 there was estimated at SlO,OOO.OO0 Within a week there were GO,OOO Brit ish troops in Ireland
 Martial law was declared in the city which was overrun with troops. Eventually many Sim Feiners sur rendered and hundreds were captured by the Grown forces. Altogether. as a result of the revolt II Sim Fein lead CTS including President Pcarsc were executed, % were sent to prison and 1 roc were deported
 subsequently, Eam0nn dc Valera sGc. cecded Pearse as President Of the Irish Republic Ireland was heavily garrisoncd with British troops for the remainder of the war.
 A notable effort to compose the du ferences between Great Britain and Ireland occurred in the summer of 1917 when the famous Dublin convention was held under the chairmanship of Sir Horace Plunkett Although the convention failed fully 10 attain its purpose of formulating a plan of peace. it did reach what Sir Horace Plum. kett called the basis of an agree ment" that Ireland should have par lament of it's own but Ulster again blocked the way to peace It could not consent to be ruled by a parlia- ment for all Ireland.
 The growth of the Sim Fein move mcnt was rapid after the Easter E"- bcuion" and up to the end Of the World war in 1918. in the following December of that year when :hr Brit ish general elections were held the result showed the Sim Fcincrs had won in 73 parliamentary "ousumcr cics. The successful candidates, hoN- ever. refused to go 10 Wcstmiust"r They claimed the elections wcr' am act of selfdetermination and that thclr choice was "an Irish Parliameu, in an Irish Republic"
 Soon afterward the Sim loiu membcrs-elect of Parliament organ izcd the Dali Eireann or Irish Parlja- ment in Dublin. Charles Burgess Was chosen speaker and a committee, com- posed of de Valera. Count Horace Punkett and Arthur Griffith. was ap- pointed to present the claims of Ire land to the Paris peace conference. De Valera and Griffith were both in prison at the time but the former es- capped on February 3, 1919. Later he appeared in the United States to float d bond issue and to plead the cause of the republic" to the Presidency of which he had been elected the fol lowing March 3
 With the signing of the armistico. ending the World War and the organ izatiou of the Dali Eircann began guerilla warfare between the forces of the Crown and the Sinp Fciners which continued up to the truce of 1921.
 During this irregular conflict viii lages and towns from Lisburn to Cork from TempIemorc to Tralee were sacked and burned. Grown forces were police barracks were de stroycd and there were wholesale re, prisals by police "auxiliaries" or cadets and Black and Fans" con stables recruited in England who wore khaki tunic with black cap.
 On May 25 of the present year, the historic Dublin Custom House was burned with a loss of $l0,0O0O00, the killing of IS persons and the arrest of more than 100 suspects. Damage wrought by fire and dynamite on the preceding December l2 aggregated $l5,0OO,O ,OOO. De Valera, in replying to the charge of military crimes" by Sim Feiners. declared that British soldiers had no right in Ireland and that as they were invaders they were treated as invaders were usually treated in times of war"
 Official British reports on tho war fare in Ireland during 1920 showed that 343 persons had been killed and 44G wounded 6S court houses and 53O police barracks destroyed and 2.So1 places raided for arms. Cable advicns dicated that hundreds more had been killed and wounded, and although nc official estimates wore Dht a in g bi ir