The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-08


 of witnesses and dispositions from vic tins, according to the report, estab- lished the fact that these troops in cluded in their ranks burglars and highwaymen, gunmen and petty thieves"
 Regarding casualties, the commits sion says that it is justified in con- cluding that mot more than 600 of the British have been killed in Ire land from May 1916 to December 1920. These 600 casualties would seem to have occurred in a force of 7S,0OO during period of four years, it is pointed out, or at the rate of not more than 26 of one per cent per annum.
 On the other hand, according to lists compiled by the Irish Republi- can government and submitted to the commission, more than 200 unarmed Irish civilians were killed by the mill tary and police during 1920 alone. This number, it was said, included six women, 12 children, 10 old men and two priests, but did not include persons killed in the fighting The commission says it does not vouch for the eXactness of the figures but direct testimony" it says, showed the killing of civilians in 1920 ran into many hundreds"
 The testimony attributed to the British forces approximately 45,000 raids, entiling "wreckage of proper ty, robbery, murder of citizens, bru- tality of priests and women and cihl- dren, and indiscriminate flogging." Many of the raids, it was said, were made at night by members of the British forces dressed in civilian clothing"
 Stress is laid upon "the moral con sequence to the imperial British forces" of the British governments military policy in Ireland" License instead of discipline, the commission says, now prevails among the troops. "Citizens of the Irish Republic" are held blameless for "incidental, acci- dental and disciplinary casualties in the British forces, and for casualties incurred under circumstances of gen eral violence and disorder" Many of the eXcesses of the 78,000 British troops are attributed to the incitment of the fear of assassination in the soldiers minds by their superiors.
 We would extend our sympathy to the great British people, says the commission in concluding it's report. "The army which is the instrument of their government in Ireland would also seem to be the instrument of the destruction of that moral heri- tage which was their glory and which cast it's luster on each and all of them. The sun of that glory seems finally to have set over Ireland. Brit ish justice has become a discredited thing. The official Black and Tans in Ireland compete for the dishOnor of Anglo-SaXOn civilization with our unofficial lynch mobs. * We hope that the wrong done to Ireland may be righted and the agony of her peo- pie cease. When these things shall be the great British people will emerge from the darkness that now encompasses them into the glory of a new day"
 Thirty-siX states were represented in the comm:t:ee which initiated the inquiry the report says, inculing five governors, II United States senators, IS congressman, the mayors of Is large cities, Cardinal Gibbons, Arch bishop Keane and four Roman Cath Olic bishops, seven Protestant Episco. pal bishops, four Methodist bishops and numerous clergymen, educators i editors, business men and labor lead | CTS. The parent committee elected the { subcommittee or commission which conducted the inquiry This commits sion was composed of l.. Hollings worth Wood, New York Quaker law yer, as chairman; Frederick c. Howe former commissioner of immigration at New York, ce-chairman; Jane Ad ans, of Hull House, Chicago; James H. Maurer, president of the American Federation of Labor of Pennsylvania Major Oliver P. Newman, former pres ident of the board of commissioners of the District of Columbia; United Stctes Senator George w. Norris, oi Nebraska; the Rev. Norman Thomas a New York Presbyterian clergyman and United States Senator David Walsh of Massachusetts.
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