Evening star., 1921-04-02
.GEDDES REJ0|NDER
ON IRISH F[AyED
Frank P. Walsh Challenges
Ambassador to Disprove
I Commissions Findings.

Frank p Walsh, as counsel for the
Irish republic, issued last night a
rejoinder to the statement of the
British embassy made in reply to the
report of the commission of the COM
mittee of one hundred investigating
conditions in Ireland.
He characterized the British state
ment as a gross perversion Of facts
and challenged Ambassador Geddes
to appear before the commission, or
some international tribunal and pre-
sent his evidence to disprove the com
missions findings on penalty of being
branded by Mr.. Walsh as "a wilful
and malicious falsif1er."
The gross perversion of facts in
Ambassador Geddes' statement, Mr..
the public statements of distinguish
ed British statesmen who have in
vestigated conditions in Ireland. but
also by the admissions of Premier
Lloyd George and Sir Hamar Green
wood in the house of commons.
The British ambassador has Sc
lected the public press for his an
swer to the evidence of witness
es, who appeared before the commits
sion. Neither the British ambassador
nor any other defender of British
terrorism in Ireland dared to appear
present their testimony in open court.
Would Hear Evidence.
THE British amba ssador now states
that he has in his possession evidence
which disproves the findings OF the
commission. l am ready to join with
Ambassador GeddeS in a request that
the commission be Immediately called
together to hear the Evidence he
claims he has in his possession or to
meet him in the presentation of evil
dence regarding the British atrocities
in Ireland before any properly con-
stituted international tribunal.
eff the British ambassador refuses
to present his evidence before such a
tribunal. where it may be challenged.
shall brand his as wilful and ma
licious falsifier.
'"The American people will not be
miSled by the unsupported falSehoods
of Ambassador Geddes in the face of
public statements of British states
men who have informed themselves at
first hand regarding British outrageS
in Ireland.
Denounced in England.
This very policy of duplicity and
falsification by the British govern
has been denounced by leading Brit
ish statesmen in the house of COM
mons. Rt. Honorable Alexander NJ
Carlisle. privy councillor. said:
1T is not merely that the govern
ment has made mistakes-gross, un-
pardonable mistakes, of which they
were fully warned-it is that they
have endeavored to hide those mis-
takes by shameless duplicity and in
famous dishonesty
The Archbishop of Canterbury. in
an address in the house of lords Feb.
fuary %. said:
"what is now being done is ex-
Actly what we condemned the Ger
mans for in Belgium. When the Ger
mans perpetrated cruelties in Bel
Eium it was said that the German
people could not be blamed, and the
reply was that the German people
acQuiesced. Exactly the same charge
can be brought against the British
people il they acouiesce without pro-
test in what is being done in Ireland
today
Treated Like Enemy.
"Viscount Bryce. former ambassador
to the United States. in a letter to the
London Times. February 25. said:
"1reland Is being treated as an
enemy whose population is presumed
to be hostile. We hear daily of cases
In which persons are shot at random,
or persons not caught red-handef. and
against whom no evidence is pro.
duced. have been shot without trial.
Many cases of house bnrnines and
wanton destruction. and downright
robbery have been admitted
Rev Duncan c. MacGreeor. mod
orator of the Presbyterian Church of
England:
"For the good name Of Britain is
II not high time that these crimes.
committed in the name of law and or
der. should cease? Voices of vastly
greater authority than mine have ut
tered their solemn protest. as yet
without effect.
Like Germans In Belgium.
Maj. Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice:
"'The result is that our methods in
Ireland differ only in degree, but not
In kind from the methods of the Ger
mans in Belgium
Rev. j. Scott Lidgett. honorable
Relical Free Churches of Great Brit
ain. in an address before the assembly
Of Evangelic Free Churches in Man.
chester. March 10. said:
Even IL force, organized. disci-
plined. and under complete control.
less and undisciplined forces. to take
matters into their own hands. to
shoot. to burn buildings, to reduce
the whole system of government to
chaos. is the worst application that
can possibly be imagined
General Condemns Police.
FINALLY. Gen. Crozier. commandant
OF tHe duXlIIdTy IOTCeS OF the IOyai
Irish constabulary. in his letter of
resignation. dated February 10. said:
"T still consider that theft on the
part of policemen in the course of
their duties in objectionable. and I
can not honestly associate myself
with force in which such acts are
condoned-'
"On behalf of the Republic of Ire
land" the statement continued. II am
p\pared to prove that the British
forces in Ireland have repeatedly tor
tured helpless prisoners and non-com-
batants. English officers have pulled
out the fingernails of prisoners with
pincers. They have manufactured a
refinement of torture known as the
crown Of thorns.' An instrument
with sharp protruding nails which is
pressed down upon the head of the
helpless victim to force him to give
information. And other atrocities
which are too revolving even to de-
scribe"