New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Four Civilians
Slain as Irish
Ambush Police
Seven Black and Tan Aux;l.
iaries Are Wounded In
Fresh Outbreak of Vio-
1ence Near Galway City
Court Martial for Griffith
Constable Is Shot Dead in
Tipperary; IL Slim Fein
Legislators Now i'm Jail

LONDON, Jan. l8.-Four civilians
were killed and seven Black and Tan
auxiliary policemen were wounded in
a fight in County Galway, Ireland, ac-
cording to reports received here to-day.
The fight followed an ambush of 8
Black and Tan patrol near the city Of
Galway.
DUBLIN, Jan. 18.-A motorcar with
eleven auxiliaries, which left Galway
this morning, was ambushed at Kilroe,
according to a statement given out by
Dublin Castle. Thirty men attacked
the auxilaries with guns and bombs
from the woods on both sides of the
road. The auxiliaries returned the FIRE
until the attacking party fed. The
auxiliaries had one seriously and five
slightly wounded.
Court Martial Predicted
Arthur Griffith, founder of the Sim
Fein organization, who was arrested in
his home here on the morning of No
vcHAoC1 ~Vy Will NC COuIL HdICId!cU IL
the present plans Of the authorities are
carried out. The date Of the court
martial, however, has not yet been set.
Arthur Griffith, with Professor John
MacNeil, Sim Fein member of Par
lament for Londonderry City and the
National University of Ireland Pre-
fessor MacNeil's son and "a number of
others were taken into custody by
anvil liaYv nolicd ot C,r1ock II, th q
morning Of November 26. Later Pro-
fessor MacNeil was released, but on
December l he was rearrested. The
ground for the detention of Mr.. Griffith
and Professor MacNcil, as given in a
Dublin dispatch of January /, was that
the government desired to ascertain
their responsibility for the alleged
employment of Irish Republican funds
in ambuscades and other operations in
volving the loss Of the lives of British
troops. The dispatch said it was re-
might include Eamon de Valera, Irish
Republican leader, as the alleged
source of the funds.]
An official proclamation has been is
sued in Tipperary forbdding all fairs,
markets and public assemblies in the
Tipperary, Cashcl and Killmaule dis
tricts, owing to murders and attacks
on police barracks.
Irish Army Officers Seized
An extensive raid was made to-day
in the Fork Hills district, South
Armagh. Twenty three arrests were
made, including q lieutenant in the
republican army.
CORK, Jan. 18-Tcrror, equally as
intense as that which prevailed before
martial law was enforced, grips the
people Of Cork. The Black and Tans
and auxiliares, who were Withdrawn
from the city after recent fires, now
are. more in evidence than ever, ana
since Saturday and Sunday nights.
when the streets of the city were swept
by bullets, the inhabitants have been
living literally in fear and trembling.
mo woman can think Of sleeping"
said the wife of a prominent citizen
to-day.
The warning of Major General Sir
Edward Strickland, the military COM
mander, that drastic measures woulo
the crown forces, has served to increase
the general feeling of uneasiness.
BELFAST, Jan. ia member Of
the constabulary was shot dead yestcr-
day at Cappaghwhite, County Tippe.
rary. The murdered man was Constable
Boyd. The shooting occurred in q
saloon. His assailants escaped.
David Kent Sim Fein member of the
House Of Commons for the East Divi-
sion of Cork, was arrested yesterday.
He makes the seventeenth Sim Fc;n
member of the British Parliament now
in Jail.
Six members of the Irish Republican
Parliament are now in the United