The Alaska daily empire., 1921-02-28
BRITISH EXECUTE. SIX FRESHMEN AS. FAN ACT OF WAR"
Five Condemned for Levying War on Crown Forces, One
 For Having Revolver.
INTERFERENCE REFUSED
Kings Bench Recognizes Authority of Military
 Law Tn Ireland.

CORK, Ireland, Feb 2S--Six against British crown forces were executed here today despite appeal for clemency by the Cork Cor poration.
 Five of the doomed men were convicted of complicity in an attack on crown forces near Dripsey, County Cork last month but the sixth was sentenced to death for being in possession of a revolver and ammunition. =.
 In confirming the sentences, the Kings Bench decided that a state of war exists between Ireland aud England and recognized the author ity of military law without inter ference by civil courts.
 LONDON, Feb 2S-The British Government does not intend alter ing it's present policy of maintain ing order in Ireland, Premier David Lloyd George announced in the i1OuSt. Ol &OiiilloH toNhy' iiC ut clared Sir Homar Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ireland, would be al- lowed to carry his administration through to it's conclusion.
 Parliament Denounced.
 Members of Parlioment are in re- ceipt of letter from Ramon De Valera. President of the Irish Re public, who charged British troops with waging war on the Irish people contrary to all the rules of civil ized warfare.
 The communication, it is ex- plained, was sent Test under plea of ignorance you should disclaim re- sponsibility for what is being done in your name" The troops, he de- clared, were guilty of torturing prisoners, assassinating men and boys, murdering women, children and clergymen and outraging Irish women and girls, fiogging and mal- treating civilians; issuing and en- forcing crawling" and such like humiliating and degrading orders; taking men from their work and forcing them to do military duty or work at military labor as slave gangs; burriing and footing fac tories, creameries and shops, and houses; the destruction of farm steads, and farm produce and kill ing and maiming of livestock.
 Many Outrages Alleged.
 Although you have put your troops on active service in Ireland, he says, although you have sought to justify many vile deeds commit ted as acts of war, and although you are armed withthe deadliest modern machinery of war and pro tected by every means known to- technical skill, you now seek to pur- chase immunity from defensive ac- ton by our party by taking posses sion of all firearms, an offense Tor which an Irishman may be arrested and shot and for which one has been shot, and by carrying Irish citizens in your military expeditions against our people.
 The orders to your troops are to shoot these hostages. should the unit with which they are travelling be attacked. Already under the spacious pretense that they were trying to escape. Irish prisoners have been brutally murdered by your troops. Now representative citizens are to be murdered sim ilarly on the ground pretended or true, that the party with which they are moving is attacked.
 These things are done because it is your will that they should be done; if you willed otherwise, they would cease. It is you. not your troops, who are primarily re sponsible.