The Washington times., 1921-05-08

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Ing. upright. they give the unique
spectacle of an army of revolution.
aries protecting life and property.
maintaining the only law and order
that now exists in Ireland, suppress
ing burglary and crime, doing equal
justice in their courts to Protestant
and Catholic, landowner. policemen.
Republican and Unionst. BY relent-
less discipline they have been hard
ened and drilled. They have learned
to believe in efficiency as the nnal
| test and fidelity as the citizens virtue.
men of peculiar gentleness. they
have a courage as to past and future
ordeals of pain of mind and of body
which leaves me stammering.
".rhe situation of hundreds driven
ION the run" rouses the hilarious
laughter Of the chivalrous House of
Commons. Hunted by day and night,
on mountains or in city slums.
watched for at every eating house,
marked to be shot at sight. they have
liant gaiety. a supreme sense of duty.
preserved q strange serenity, = gal
The passion of the young men is too
| deep. or. IL you will, too high. for
easy words Of sentimentality. II the
country 10 now more solidly bound
| together than ever 1t was, IL II Is
and conference. 1t Is through the
spiritual influence of the volunteers
BLACK AND TAN ATROCITIES.
an striking contrast with the clean,
sober. sympathetic young Irish VOL
unteers are the members Of the Royal
Irish constabulary and their aux!li-
| aries, commonly known as BLACK and
Tans." From January 1, of this year.
to February p, forty-seven perso ls.
on-combatants, were murdered in
cold blood. These figures do not in
clude the executions OF prisoners of
war.
A particularly atrocious case was
that OF Michael Farrelly, seventy
years old, of Ballinalee, County Long
ford. Black and Tans visited his home
on February and in reprisar for
an ambush in the neighborhood muir
dered him and then set fire to his
home. burning II to the ground.
another brutal case was that Of
Miss Martha Nowlan, OF Connaught
street, Dublin, who. on January %.
was shot dead by military who opened
fire on the public without any ap-
parent provocation or reason. A sad
ending came to John Lawlor. a .;ler-
ical student of Listowel. County
Kerry, who was seized in the street
and beaten to death by members CT
the constabulary.
Robert Dixon, fifty-six years cid,
an English justice of the peace, re-
sisted the attempt by constabulary to
loot his home In the early morning of
February 2 and was shot dead in the
presence OF his son and daughter. Tie
son in trying to protect his father
was dangerously wounded
IAN atrocious incident that aroused
the people of Dublin was that involv-
ing Patrick Kennedy, eighteen years
old. and James Murphy. They were
walking on Talbot street on February
9, when they were seized by Black and
Tans. They were escorted to Dublin
Castle and while there were sayagcly
beaten. Later they were taken to
Clonturk Park, Drumcondra, Doublin,
where their cruel prosecutors attempt
ed to turn tragedy into comedy. Tin
cans were placed on the boys heads
and were fred upon from close range.
Kennedy died instantly and Murphy
died a few hours later.
Cornelius Murphy, of Baltimore
County Kerry, was shot by order of
the general commanding the English
troops in Ireland because he was
guilty of having a loaded pistol in
Donovan, eighteen years old. and Ar
den Donovan, fourteen years old, were
shot and killed on February 20 be-
cause they refused to halt" Michael
]. Kelleher. fourteen years old, was
shot dead in Cork on February Z be-
cause he refused to halt" What the
trained. fully armed constabulary had
to fear from fourteen-year-old boys
is a question that puzzles men with
humane hearts.
"These murders do not include cases
where a doubt of crown forces guilt
exists. For instance, four young
men were found in a field in Cork on
February 10 with their bodies riddled
with bullets. Nor do they include
the burning alive OF a young man
who, while asleep in a hay barn. met
his death after the building had been
fired by constabulary. His name was
Timothy OSullivan.
GRFENWOOD'S PROTEST.
"The day following the date when
this list was compiled Sir Hamar
Greenwood had this to say in the
House Of Commons:
az can never understand how the
burning Of house or a town Is COM
parable to the irrevocable destruction
OF human life. 1 feel as keenly on
this question as anybody in the
House. There Is not a single thing
going on in Ireland today that Is