Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-31
BRIT AIN BLAMED
FOR IRISH TROUBLES
In Report of Committee of One
Hundred, Which Has Been
Investigating
(By Associated PresO

orders in Ireland is placed upon
the British government by the
commission of the Committee Of
One Hundred investigating the
Irish question in a 10000 word
report made public today and Gov
ering the examination of witness
es at public hearings held by the
commission in Washington last
November, December and Janu-
ary. The report has been issued
under the title Of "The American
Commission of Conditions in Ire.
land" which announces that it
, will continue the inquiry.
Declaring that the commission
was under the disadvantage Of
! lacking the official British side of
the case" except as it was gath
cred from documents presented
TO it. the report declares that "the
imperial British army i'll ireland
mas been guilty Of proved excess
es. not incompatible in degree
and kind with those alleged, BY
the Bryce report on Belgium
! atrocities. to have been commit
ted by the imperial German
army The Bryce commission
! it is pointed out, was similarly
handicapped.
, irty-cight witnesses OF alleg-
cn atrocities including IS Irish. 18
American and two English citi-
zens. testified before the commits
d SION. / he commission admits that
its report is ex parte i'll spite Of
its efforts to hear all sides. The
i testimony available. the report
says. gives the cases therefore,
almost wholly from the Irish re-
publican or Sim Fem viewpoint
or "from rsources not unsynpa-
thetic to the application of the
principle of self-deterrnination to
Ireland" The Uuster Unionist
viewpoint and that of the British
| authorities in Ireland. the report
says, were not represented among
, the witnesses.
Summing up its conclusions at
ter hearing all the testimony. the
commission finds that the Irish
people are deprived of the protec-
ton OF British law. to which they
would be entitled As subjects OF
! the British king. They are like
wise deprived Of the moral pro-
lection granted by international
! law. to which they would be entit-
led as belligerents. They are at
the mercy OF imperial British
! forces which, acting both contra
ry to all law and to standards of
human conduct, have instituted in
ireland "a terror" the evidence
regarding which seems to prove
! that:
! 1.-The Imperial British Gov
ernment has created and introdu-
ced into ireland a force of at
least ZS.C00 men. many of them
youthful and inexperienced. and
some of them Convicts; and has
melted that force to unbridled
violence.
! Z-The Imperial British forces
I in Ireland have indiscrimiilately
killed innocent men, women and
| children have tortured and shot
prisoners while in custody, adopt
i ing the subterfuge of refusal to
halt" and attempting to escape"
and have attributed to alleged
'"Sinn Fem Extremists, the Brit
ish assassination of prominent
Irish republicans.
| 3-House- burning and wanton
destruction of villages and cities
by Imperial British forces tinder
imperial British officers have been
countenanced. and ordered by Of
i ficials of the British government
and elaborate provision by gaso-
/ line sprays and bombs has been
made in a number of instances for
systematic incendiarism.s as part
Of plan Of terroism.
A campaign for the desttuc-
ltion of the means of existence, of
the Irish people has been con
Quoted by the burning Of factories
creameries, crops and farm i'm
plements and the shooting of
farm animals. This campaign
is carried on regardless OF the
political views of their owiiers.
and results in widespread and
acute suffering among women
and children.
5-Acting under series of pro-
carnations issued by the cdtipe-
tent military authorities OF the
Imperial British forces. hostages
are carried by forces exposed to
the fire of the republican art1y !;
fines are levied upon towns and
! villages as punishment for alleg-
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