New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Si1lr1 Feir1 Raid
Aimed to Keep
Irish From VI. S.
Tickets and Passports Taken
From Prospective Emil
grants Waiting i'm Liv-
erpool Lodging Houses
Ordered Back Into Army
New Truce Proposal Is Made
by Arthur Vincent, Hus-
band of American Girl
From The Trsbune's European Bureau

Copyright 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Feb. 19.-Sinn Fein ac-
tivity was extended to England again
last night, when lodging houses in
Liverpool were raided and passports
and steamship tickets stolen from
Irishmen who had intended to sail for
the United States to-day on the Car
mania. All of the raiders were armed,
but although they did not wear masks,
none of them has yet been arrested.
Three boarding houses near the
docks were entered by the Sim Fein
delegates within an hour. In the first
house, five Irish boys were compelled
to give up their papers and were or
dered to return to Ireland Immediately
and poin the republican army. Four
men were similarly treated in the sec
ond house visited, and an ungiven
number in the third building.
In all Of the raids, the intruders in
formed the victims that they were
members Of the Liverpool plain clothes
police, and rs lodging houses have
grown more or less accustomed to
visits Of the police Immediately be-
fore the sailing of vessels, the Sim
Feiners' visit did not draw any i'm
mediate suspicion. By the time the
Liverpool police had been notified of
the raids, they were over.
Passports To Be Duplicated
Officials of the Cunard Line said this
afternoon that the tickets and pass
ports of the men robbed would be
duplicated as soon as possible.
1t is established Sim Fein policy to
discourage emigration from Ireland.
For several months there has been q
poster on the stairway leading to the
United States Consulate in Dublin, dis
playing decree of the Dali Eireann
not want the Irish republican army de-
pleted.
1t is a coincidence that the latest
proposal for settlement of Irish diff
ficulties is made in a letter to the Dub
lin press by Arthur Vincent, of Kill
larney, who long resided in the United
States and who married an American.
Her father bought Muckross Abbey, in
Killarney, and gave it to the couple as
wedding present. Vincent proposes
the immediate meeting of Eamon de
Valera, for Sim Fein; Sir James Craig.
the new leader of the Ulster party, and
representatives. of other interests to
discuss possible settlement. He urges
an immediate cessation of hostihties
and places his home at the disposal
Of the negotiator.
Vincent is a sympathizer with the
Sir Horace Plunkett group of moder-
ates.
Disorder Renewed in Belfast
There was considerable disorder in
Belfast s.gain last night. Streetcars.
in which shipyard workers were riding,
were stoned, much as they were in the
bloody riots last July. Later the Sim
Fein quarter was raided by the mill
tray.
The military in Dublin began to-
day the evacuation of the invested area
which was cut off there yesterday, but
shooting and bomb throwing accom-
panied the withdrawal.
A police barracks at Charleville was
attacked unsuccessfully by the Sim
Fein last night.
George Tilson, of Black Rock, County
Cork, said to have been secret serv-
ice agent, was found this afternoon
with his throat cut in the lavatorv of
railway car on a siding at Worm
wood Scrubs prison, in the suburbs of
London. He had travelled from Fish
guard, Wales. In his pocket was slip
Of paper marked: "Shadowed from
Ireland" He died later at an hospital.