The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-08

y anu ClIy governments refuse to recognize British authority; and Brit 1sh civil officials fulfill no function of service to the Irish people
 '7. In spite of the British terror the majority of the Irish people have sanctioned by ballot the Iritsh Re- public, give their allegiance to it; pay taxes to it; and respect the de- cisions of it's courts and of it's civil officials"
 The commission also declared that "the situation in Ireland was a pro- per subject of concern for all peoples claiming either humanity or civiliza- tion," saying that "it appealed par ticularly to Americans so closely bound by ties of blood and culture to the Irish and English people," Unless moral force could prevail to end the terror in Ireland the commission pointed out, physical force seemed bound to continue both to deny the possibility of peace in Ireland and to diminish the possibility of nin-inter- yention of our government in the struggle"
 Ut seemed to us," says the com mission, that we could best serve the cause of peace by placing before the English, Irish and American pub lie the facts of the situation, free from both agonized exaggeration and moral understatement; for a knowl- edge of the facts might reveal their cause and recognition of that cause might permit it's cure, by those whose purpose was not to slay, but to heal" In touching upon the events leading to the present crisis, the report de- clar2S: "The central fact in the Irish situation is the presence of the British in Ireland. The British can point to TOO years of possession of Ireland and to 700 years trying to pacify Ireland, and the British natur- ally desire to continue to possess Ireland for they are proud of their empire, jealous of it's integrity and anxious about it's security"
 The report points out that the Irish, as a result of their resort to arms in 17S3, 1798, 1903, 1S4S and 1867, have won from the British parliament the abolition of penal laws against, Roman Catholics, Disestab- Iishment of the Irish church, liberal land laws and, finally, the Irish home rule act which was passed by the house of lords and commons and signed by the king in 1914. At the behest of the British tories, under Sir Edward Carson" the report says, that act was suspended for the dur ation of the war and was later ren- dered void by a superseding act which partitioned Ireland"
 The commission in referring to the , Ulster rebellion of 1914 which, it says, was started by the tories to 1 fight home rule, charged that Car 1 son and other leaders who had i'm ported arms from Germany had set up a provisional government in Bel | fast were forgiven and promoted to i high offices in the British govern ment.
 After this" the report says, Gin 1916, Irish poets, teachers and lead
 CTS, with less than 1000 followers rose in rebellion and declared Ire
 lands independence. Confronted with the Irish declaration of independence 1 the imperial British government
 poured additional troops into Ireland The rebellion was crushed in Apri
 1916 The imperial British govern
 ment then continued to pour troops
 into Ireland. The Irish to an increas
 ing degree were deprived of civi
 and social liberty. Such British rule lasted until December IA, 1918, when
 at the conclusion of a war avowedl!
 fought for the rights of small nations
 the Irish people in the general cleo
 tion held under British auspices, gave
 the endorsement of their suffrage tC
 the Irish republic which was the cleo
 tion issue in Ireland. In fulfillmen
 of their pledge the elected represen
 tatives of the Irish republic met il
 congress (the Dali Eirann) at Dublin
 organized as a government, nominat
 ed officers and proceeded to function
 (Jan. q, 1919). and an army knowl
 as the Irish Republican army wal
 created, equipped with distinctive uni
 forms and drilled openly"
 Two kinds of killings" have char
 acterized the Irish Republican war
 fare, according to the report First
 the casualties resulting from the Sim
 Feiners' attempt to obtain arms anC
 ammunition in attacking motor Tor
 ries and police barracks and, sec