Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-08
REBELLION IN IRELAND
HAS COST 1000 LIVES
The Property Damage Has Amounted More Than
and Mounting Higher DailyA Souvenir Of the Last 8oo
Irish Parliament to be Given North Parliament.
BY Hugh Curran
s' e ~ N. Y Copyright.

Dublin, June 6.--The war In Ire-
land has up to the present date cost
the loss OF nearly TOO lives and about
40 millions of dollars worth OF prop
erty. The loss OF life is about evenly
balanced between the crown forces and
civilians. The latter of course include
men who were shot when refusing to
halt. who were taken out Of their
houses and subsequently found dead, az
well as women and children VINO were
killed by getting In the line OF fire, or
were struck by splinters of bombs In
the city streets. The Crown forces
killed include I'm addition to the milf
tary and police forces civil officials of
whom n number have been killed, also
men who were supposed To belong to
the British secret service---that is to
say spies.
The total, when considers the size
I of the country and it's population of
barely four and n half millions, is
appalling Especially must IL be so
| regarded when it is remembered that
/ 1t is all over a more or less petty
| political, squabble which half dozen
| men sitting round table ought TO
settle in couple of hours. The fact
| that the issue is more or less trivial
does not however imply that II is not
I dangerous. The fact that a guerilla
war with casualties as | have mem
tioned) has been waged round II for
| two years conveys It's own signif-
| canoe. IL is perfectly obvious, too.
that the fighting and bloodshed are
not nearly finished yet. There is in
fact, Notwithstanding all the talk Of
peace, no sign that either the British
| government or the Irish Republican
army is likely to yield. A war of ex-
! termination is, of course, unthink-
able. but the way To peace has nor
yet been found and neither of the
protagonists is exhausted.
/ England Must Go Says Slim Feln,
| IL is not often that one gets an
| authoritative statement of what Sim
Fein stands for because it's leaders do
not make il a practice to shout their
views to the newspapermen, as they
are not available except under the
most difficult conditions for interviews !.
In the latest issue of Old ireland, a
tiny weekly newspaper. the only one
which is permitted to exist. there Is a
II
which one may regard as entirely
authoritative. II is indeed surprising
that the British authorities have not
yet suppressed the publication for
some of the statements as they are
more violent than are usually per-
mitted. The paper says we are going
TO put an end once and for all 10 Eng
lands hour Of interference in Ireland
| We want to be let alone. England
must go. That is all. There has
/ come in our times the psychologicnl
moment, and we have seized IL. We
mean to go through with IL. cost
what it may. Lloyd George may. as
he threatens, murder the soldiers of
| Ireland as he catches them. BY the
time he has all our generation caught
the next generation will be laundering
at his door All Ireland stands
| by the gunners and by every action of
theirs. Let none mistake that. n
would stand by them to the end. This
| time II means to settle that old ques
ton. This time it means to clear
England out"
There is nothing ambiguous abou,
that language, and so far as one can
see II states the policy which is bein.
/ pursued.
On the other hand the British gov
ernment goes on dogedly with tts
policy OF repression needless of tho
criticisms and comments which come
not only from Ireland and America
but even from England itself. Recent
~ loud protests have come from the
leaders OF the Church of England and
the non-comforrnist churches. and
Mr.. Lloyd George firmly turned them
down with arguments which are nov,
as familiar as they are forcible Tha
answer is simply this:
That England cannot and uiII not
allow herself to be Inundated bv tha
pretentions of Sim Fein. Ireland in