Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-12
WILSON WILL SAY
IF MAYOR IS T0STAY
President to Decide Contention
Between Departments a. to
O'Callaghan.
By Associated Press 10 Every Evening.

By Associated Press 10 Every Evening.
Washington. Jan. l2.--Porrnal claim
TO the rights of a political refugee was
made today by Donal O'Callnghsn, lord
mayor of Cork, who entered the country
as stowaway without passport and
whose casesis before President Wilson for
final decision "a result of differences
between the State and labor departments
The claim was presented To Secretary
Wilson at the Labor Department by Judge
Lawless. attorney for O'Callaghan, and IN
whose custody he was psroled soon alter
his arrival in this country.
Acting Secretary Davis Of the State
Department has ruled that the lord mayor
could not be considered political refugee
when Eamonn De Valera, president of the
so-called Irish republic. was returning To
Ireland at the same time that OCal-
laghan was leaving there
Judge Lawless was understood IN have
told Secretary Wilson that the lord mayor
had found it impossible 10 obtain pass
port from the British government.
Washington, Jan. 12.-President Will
son was expected 10 settle today the
controversy between the State and Labor
Departments ns to the admissfbilItv TO
this country of Lord Mayor OCallaehan
of Coik, who, arriving at Newport News
last week from Ireland as stowawny,
was without a passport. Alter tho State
Department yesterday had refused 70
waive the Passport regulations and had
ordered the deportation OF olaiiaghari
the Labor Depar tment declined 10 rec
ognize the jurisdiction OF the Secretary
OF State IN the matter.
l. 1. he 4.,-f,e nv
prcted here today from New York and
he plans To testify tomorrow before the
Commission of the Committee of Ono
Hundred.
Dublin, Jan. i2-~Two statements
concerning reprisals in Ireland were
made public Yesterday. The first, from
British official sources, explains that he
houses DESTROYED at Middleton and Nee
lin. County Cork, were not destroyed
bv FIRE, which would have endangered
adjoining property, but scientifically by
explosives, whose range and effects were
carefully calculated
The second, from a Sim Fein source,
asserts that not the military, but the
eonstabularv were responsible for the
institution of official reprIsals, and pro
ceeds to explain that olamor from the
constabularv brought about climax,
when the divisional commissioner OF po-
lice at Limerick complained to Dublin
Castle that the military had no power
10 punish communities under martial
law, and threatened that if the "hilcom-
mon murders" continued to go unpun-
ished he would withdraw all the small
detachments of constabulary and leave
the country to the rebels.
Thereupon, the statement adds, the
government yielded, and the reprisals
became official
Dublin Castle stated yesterday there
was no truth in the published report
that the authorities contemplated the ex-
tthsion of martial law to Dublin City
and county.
Belfast, Jan. 12.-John Doran, 5
prominent young Sim Feiner of Cam
Tough. South Armaugh, which has beef
the scene of recent attacks on the police
was taken from his bed in his father.
house at midnight Monday night by sever
armed men and shot to death
After a distressing scene in the houss
Dorsn was led to spot nearby, wher,
his brother Michael was compelled e
witness the execution. A sister was in
jured in trying TO prevent her brother
removal
London, Jan. l2.-Mrs Terance Mac
Swiney. widow of the lord mayor 0
Cork. disembarked here yesterday morn
| ing from the steamer Panhandle State
which arrived from New York. Onl,
two or three friends greeted her at th
quay. There was no demonstration.
Mrs. MaeSwiney intends to remain il
England a few days and then proceed I
Ireland.