New-York tribune., 1921-05-23
Violence Again
Loose I'm Erin
As Pope Pleads
Sick Man Is Murdered in
County Cork, Belgian
Sailor Injured; Peace
Plea Read In the PuIpi,s
Little Hope of Success
Both Factions in Ireland
Filled With Bitterness:
Farley Reports Denied
Frors The 7ri5pse's European B,feaa
Copyright, 1921, New orN Tribune Inc.

SOpyrlGht. 1871, New oFk tribune Inc.
LONDON, May 22.--The Pope's ap-
peal in an apostolic letter te Cardinal
Logue for settlement of the Irish,
question by the cessation of violence
and the negotiation of peace was read
in the churches of Ireland to day
The letter, however, is expected to
have only a negligible effect, for it
comes at the end of week unparal-
ieled by any since 1916 in the number
of casualties in the warfare waged in
ireland, and much of the weight the
appeal might have carried a few
months ago is lost in the bitterness of
the present crisis. The republican ex~
tremists appear to be doing all in their
power to prejudice any settlement on
the ground of compromise and the
government is retaliating by increas-
ing the severity of military control
measures.
Moreover, religious feeling is run
ming high in Ulster, where the Catho-
lie minority says it is Systematically
prosecuted, Whether the Vatican's ap-
peal will have q calming effect there
or will only add fuel to the unrest
cannot yet be predicted.
Relatively unbiased political observ-
ers in England see in the cold -blooded
intensity of the most recent revival
of murders and shooting q decided bar
~ III LDe near IuJure,
and point to Premier LLOYD Georges
recent statement that he has said moth
ing leading toward an Irish peace,
beyond his expressions in the House
of Commons, as confirmation of this
attitude.
BELFAST, May % (By The AS
sociated Press).-The Dali Eireann's
publicity department has issued state
Il low : i
mating in Belfast that Eamon de Val
era and Premier Lloyd George are in
direct negotiations for a settlement Of
the Irish situation.
We long have known of the inten-
ton to mislead the electors on polling
day by, spreading such reports when it
is too late for their contradiction"
says the statement. "We trust the
electors of the six counties will prove
lar too keen and wide awake to be i'm
posed upon by ruse of this kind"
Inc election campaign for the Ulster
Parlament is proving the freest from
Iactlon lights of any election in recent
years, and the fact that Saturday night
and Sunday passed without serious dis
turbances leads even those who ex
pected trouble to the belief that the
Danger is past. Feeling ran high, how
ever, and passions are heated, but the
careful police and military precautions
Up to the present have kept the fac
tions apart
The Unionists, whose district is
decorated with union jacks as never
before, with pictures of Sir Edward
Carson and Sir James Craig displayed
everywhere, to-day attended Empire
Day services" in their churches and
chapeis,)whil the Sim F6iners, whose
colors also had been freely hoisted,
held meeting in Smithfield Square on
the doorsteps of the police barracks,
into which some of their members re-
Gently fired shots. The Nationalists
held big demonstration in Celtic
Park.
Father Flanagan was the chief
speaker for the Sim Fem, while Joseph
: Devlin, whose popularity does not
wane, spoke for the NationaIists. Mr..
Devlin had big reception in Celtic
fark, whittier he led procession Of
thousands of his supporters from the
famous Falls Road, and addressed a
great audience, largely composed of
women, who are keener politicians than
ever now that they have been given
the vote. He declared that the Ma
tionalists stood for freedom for every
Irishman worshiping at the altar of
ireland. nation
The Nationalfsts themselves main
tanned order in the park, but outside
the police formed Gordon cutting off
the Unionist district around Donegal
Road, fearing an attempt to break up
the Nationalist procession on its re-
turn to the city.
CORK. May 22.-The members of
the crew of the Belgian collier Hoog-
vllet, while resting on the quayside
to-day, were fired on from the direc-
ton of Parnell Bridge. The fireman
of the vessel suffered a shattered right
leg, which was amputated later in the
military hospital. The other members
OF the crew were not injured. The
Hoogvliet arrived here Saturday with
coal for this city.
William Bourke, who was in failing
health. was shot dead to-day outside
his fathers house in Ballyhooly,
County Cork, after being challenged
by unknown persons.