Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-04-18
YEAR OF TERROR
FAILS TO PACIFY
FIGHTING irish
Sim Fem Undaunted
Martial Law Proves
A + allure
BY MILTON BRONNER.

BY MILTON BRONNER.
LONDON. April ~. -- ireland
passes from one year Of terror into
another.
The new martial law instituted b"
the British government instead Of
suppressing revelation adds fuel TO
the Flames.
Sim Fein's spirit is undauntcd
The government has locked TAP
Arthur Griffith, the vice president
of the Irish republic. 1t has pu,
Desmond Fitzgerald, Sim Fem
member of Parliament, IN solitary
confinement. But the only result
has been to bring back to Ireland
canon de Valera, president Of the
Irish republic, who issues letter to
all the members of the British Par
lament in which he accuses the
crown soldiers of these crimes:
Torturing prisoners.
Assassinating men and boys M
their homes, on the streets and IL
prison.
Numbering women and children.
Outraging Irish women and chill
dren.
Flogging civilians
Illuminating Irish citizens, for in
stance, by compelling them to crawl
Forcing men to DO military duty
Burning and looting
De Valera in his denunclatlon
charged rs prisoners were tortured
22O defenseless men and boys were
assassinated. seven women, Is chlI-
drem and two clergymen murdered.
l19 men and boys f!ogged, and Is
factories, Al creameries, ZOOS shop
and 995 homes either wholly on part
ly destroyed.
One Year of Terrorism.
The high spots of the last II
months of terror may be summarized
as follows:
FIRST, passage of the Restora
ton of Order Act under which any
district in Ireland can be put under
martial law.
SECOND, swift declaration Of
martial law in many counties in west
and south Ireland.
THIRD, quick sentences to dsat0
or long Imprisonment OF many men
who hadn't surrendered their arms
FOURTH, reprisals by crown
forces on guiltless Irish people.
FIFTH, burning Of BalDnggam
September 20, and a large portion OF
Cork; December II, for which fina,
responsibility hasn't been fixed.
SIXTH, passage Of the Home Ruiz
Act setting up separate Parhaments
for north and south Ireland, when
however, only the Obstetrics have
accepted.
Take a recent week III Ireland IS
typical of the constant terrorism
and strife. The week of March IL
II will do. Many of the Royal Irisl
Constabulary were shot. Six al
tacks were made on police bar
racks. Mail trains were stopped ana
robbed. Bridges were burned. At
tempts were made to rescue +rlsl
prisoners.
Crown forces were accused OF
shooting men who didn't halt Whc"
ordered. A house in Limerick was
burned in reprisal. CurteW was
proclaimed in Bantry, markets al
Ballinrobe and Athy and the fair at
Carrick- on-Shannon were prohibited.
To climax it all six young Irish.
lllCIl NNlG C2NSNliNA III yNH4AlAS Wv ~
charged with murder, four vita
high treason.
Costs S15O,OOO,O00 a Year.
The most accurate estimate of
damage to property during the Sim
Fem struggle is more than $4O,00O,
O0O.#
The war in Ireland is costing the
British taxpayers heavily, toe. They
are supporting 100000 men in the
forces in Ireland, with the most com
plete military equipment. A con
servative estimate of the cost is
$150,000,000 a year.
The Irish policy of the govern
ment IS meeting increasing disap.
proval in England. In a recent de.
bate in Parliament men like w. A.
Acland, an independent Liberal, Sir
H. Cavendish Bentinck, a Conserva-
tive, and MacCallum Scott, a coali-
ton Liberal, denounced it.
The Irish office of the British
government gives out these figure,
on crimes attributed to Sim Fem
committed in two years and three
months:
Barracks destroyed and dam
aSSu Observation-Disclosures 4 =
Raids on mails .--..-.--.---.......-.-. / 1873
Raids on coastguard stations
sand lighthouses .-.-.- -.--...--..- IS
Raids for arms --.-.........-.-.-.--....-3 ,069
Raids on tax collectors Offices. SO
Policemen killed --.-....-...---....-. 249
Policemen wounded ...-.............- 1888
Soldiers killed -.--..-.---,-.--....-.--.. n