The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-02
GIRL TELLS OF BLACK AND TAN
 RAIDS0N HOME

LIMERICK, Ireland, June (by As sociated Press) Miss Una Daly has given graphic description of a Black and Tan raid on an Irish home in an affidavit she has just filed here. Miss Daly witnessed the destruction of the furnishings of her house and describes the special delight which, she says, "the British army seemed to take in their work"
 Miss Daily declared that the of ficer in command informed her that the official reprisal was carried out because the owner of the house, Miss Madge Daly, Una's sister, failed to notify the British authorities of an Irish ambush made about mile away from their home on the previous night.
 An officer told us that they were going to burn the house and that we had 15 minutes to clear out" said Una Daly. We learned that we could take what family photographs, ad- dresses, etc., that we could get in that time. Most of the time was spent in helping my aunt down from her room at the top of the house. Then we were ordered to the back garden while the building was searched by the military and the po- lice who, armed with sledge hammers and implements of destruction, set to work to break every piece of furni- ture in the house.
 'The conduct of Sergeant Horan
 was particularly painful to us. He danced about in silk hat belonging
 to my uncle, the late John Daily. The memory of this uncle who reared me and my orphaned sisters and broth CTS is very dear to us and all his ef- fleets were held as treasures. Not content with wounding our feelings, this Sergeant Horan poured a torrent of vile abuse on me and my
 sister and mother while all those 1 chivalrous officers and soldiers of the glorious British army seemed to enjoy the joke. 1 can say that I did
 not see a single act of courtesy
 or manliness from any individual of
 all that big force.
 'The officers of the British army seemed to take a special delight in their work. One took a fur coat and collar from my sister and threw them
 into the fire,> another picked up a pair of new shoes and did the same. One soldier paraded at the window in lady's corset, another decked him. sell III suit of pajamas which be- longed to my dead brother.
 For two and one-half hours we
 were forced to listen to the blows that destroyed our home, to see the windows being smashed out and the broken furniture, glass, bedding, clothes, china, etc, pelted out These
 were taken to the road where
 huge bonfire was made and the rem nants were consumed.
 Black and Tans went to the hot house and broke every plant in it with mallets. The gas brackets ill the house were bent and torn. down, | the brass fittings in the hall torn
 out and all fixtures broken and dam- aged
 We had lovely home, II rooms beautifully furnished and when the British wreckers were finished we had few pictures of our dead. An oldish officer accompanied by 1 another came to us in the garden dur
 ing the process of destruction and
 asked for Miss Madge Daily. When
 told that she was in Dublin, he
 proceeded to read from a paper that, as Miss Madge Daly did not give mo-
 tice to the military of an ambush
 which took place in John Street on the previous night, all contents of the
 house were to be destroyed by mill
 tary order.
 Now, our house is over a mile from the place where this supposed ambush took place, with a river between. My sister Madge was in Dublin at the time, yet our house IS destroyed because she did not give notice of what she could not possibly have knowledge of, even supposing that she was despicable enough to turn spy and traitor to her