The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-24

OWNERS IGNORANT
OF THEIR PRESENCE

Despite Captures 0utrages Are Undated
Irish Republic CensOrs Mail, Steals
Automobiles and Captures Stores Of
FOOd-2.OOO In Jail
DUBLIN. May PA new feature of
military administration in Dublin is the
success of the authorities in discovering
concealed arms and ammunition. Most
active in this work has been the f. Com
pany of the auxiliaries to the constabu-
larry, which, as communications regarding
it are always issued by general headquar-
tiers, and not by the castle, must be sup.
posed to be operating by military orders.
After months of almost fruitless
searches important finds are being made.
Search is not cinfned to the poorer dis
trlctS and the most fashionable houses are
extensively examined. Suspicion is not
directed so much against the owners of
such houses as against their servants,
while in some cases it is probable that
neither masters nor servants were cog
INFANT of all that the premises contained
Dublin has numerous streets of houses
each with a stable at the back, relies of
the time when the occupants kept car
riages. In many cases these stables are
let to car drivers, or to anybody willing
to rent them, and several of these sta
bles have been found to contain supplies
of revolvers. rifles and bombs. Some
houses in the suburbs have long gardens
to the end of which the owners do not
often penetrate. and in some of these,
| bombs have been discovered.
Despite all this activity the official
summary of Outrages records each week
no diminution in the number or character
of the attacks made in the city. which
have grown in excess of all anticipations.
Republican Audacity.
Apart from the bomb attacks on the
military lorries, which have wounded
more Outstanding civilians than members
OF the crown forces. the audacity of the
Republican army is manifested every day
in exploits each of them perhaps trifling
| but in combination showing careful or
ganiZation and reckless holiness.
PoStrnen. telegraph messengers and
despatch riders are held up and their
| messages captured. 1t is quite common
for the average citizen to receive his let
tiers after some days delay markd cen
Sored by the Irish Republic and this
is often the case when letters containing
valuables have been registerd.
Nobody can drive an automobile with
out permit, but this interferes little
With the activities of those against whom
the regulation is aimed. When the Re
publicaus want a motor they 20 and take
1t. They give in most cases a receipt
for it and when it has served their pur-
pose they return it. Even military lor-
ries have not escaped seizure and use by
the Rpublican agents.
General Throughout Country.
Food stores intended for the military
have been captured and destroyed and
even the laundry vans have been made a
prey and their contents burned within a
couple Of miles of Dublin castle. The
same story comes from many parts of the
country and every province can show
numerous instances of the same kind of
activity as in Dublin. Imprisonment ap-
parentIv has been Intellectual.
Besides over 1000 persons in Jail nm
der the sentences of the courts martial.
there are informed in the various intern
mcnt camps over 1900 men. held on Sus-
piciOn that they would be likely to COM
NIT offenSeS. There seems to be always
somebody to take the place of the man
in Jail.