Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-04-01
Admit Troops After
Extreme Provocation
Committed Violence.
Deny Acts Ordered or
Condoned BY Crown;
Extremists Are I Heard.

| Extremists Are Heard.
! Washington, March 31.
General conclusions Of the un-
official commission Of the com
mittee of 100 investigating con-
ditions in ireland placing moral
responsibility for disorders
there on the British govern
ment are characterized as
CHASED and wholly misleading
in a statement issued Thurs
day by the British embassy in
answer to the commissions re.
port.
The report, the embassy statement
said. was entitled to exactly tie
amount of weight which should be given
to any judgment based entirely uDon
the evidence OF ex-pafte statements
and put forward for the most part ~
persons admittedly holding extreme
views 49,
That the crown forces lin Irelandl
under almost incredible proyocnf;on
Dorne during many months, have On
some occasioSs broken the bonds Of
discipline and committed uuiuvtfffahlA
acts OF violence, 10 not denied, tha eua-
Dassy statement contiaued, but q ~
that such acts haye been ordsrs1. q
couraged or condoned BY the BfifiGh
government. il absolutely falDe. TIE
interests which suffer most " acfs 81
discipline are those Of the government
Statement Of Embassy.
The statement issued By the embaev-
The report Of the commission on
conditions in ireland il entitled 20
exactly the amount Of weight which
should be given to any judgment based
on the evidence Of exparte statements
put forward for the most part by per-
sons admittedly holding extreme views.
1t Is biased and wholly misleading.
ireland SO far from being I dc.as-
tatea country. is the most prosperous
part of the United Kingdom and prob
ably of western Europe. A reliable m
dex 70 the general prosperity Of the
country can be found in the returns Of
aaeposits q In joint stock banks which
nave increased as follows:
1914, 100000 pound. .ter,;n..
1919. 1660O0OOO pounds sterling: 1920.
2oo.OOO,OO pounds sterling.
Property Coatissss.
This prosperity continues and il
only affected in q very minor derree-
and that mainly in the north-6v fhe
general industrial depression,
The report Of the committee Iav.
stress on so-called reprisals and IT,
nores the fact that before even the
irish propagandists suggested in Sep
!emoer. 1870, that reprisals were tak.
ng ing place. " policemen, IL soldiers and
IS civilians had been murdered in cold
blood and l59 policemen, IS soldiers
cases without chance of defend;rc
themselves; 400 buildings had been
burned and wholly or partly DESTROYED
"Sinn Fein has established its nori-
ION by the terror Of the revolver. which
has silenced the moderate opinion Of
he vast majority Of Irishmen. II de-
slres to claim for the Irish republi-
an army the status of belligerenfs, ie-
1orlng that the members Of that force
indeed, invariably. violate
ne law Of war. Their nethods are
nose OF the assassin.
Abandon A..a1( IN,
Increasing pressurs u eteuA forces
as succeeded in forcne. then1 noro and
more to abanlon Il 1s6Ac1s q infd-
'idual a. n 1lvor pf or
he furtuR fiR activities
till cont ssw
scrhaA ssS Nnr3Av -
orna nths, have on
opc - bonds Of dis
iplil 1Ajustifiable acts
e.. Med, but to say
n ordered, encour-
u the British gov
ects with regard to
ised in the report Of
BLOW:
Eation strength Of the
us 81 600. The antere-
recruits are carefully In
md no man Of known or
ger is retained.
has been no indiscr;minA.
men have been shot thrCNkh
10 halt when challenged 81 sen
and innocent persons, including q
a and children, have suffered ss j
or wounds In armed confl9ke
Smg from unpr0voked attack IA Il
the Sim Feiners upon
, crown in crowded streetss ssss
,m these and similar ,inad
the record Of the
'ccs is absolutely clean 10 H 3s
men and children are concsrn
Torture Story Disprsvid.
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