Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-07-01
THE war In IRELAND
Whole Country is Like a Fortified
-; - Camp. \.
DUBLIN IS ARRAYED AGAINST BELFAST
Wherever You Go in the Much Dis
turbed Island You See: Signs OF
Military Preparedness-Ali' Are
pe.dy Cor War .:.a'. to-


Military Preparedness-Ali ':'' Are
Ready for War. '';''' 'st!..5.
Literary Digest.
Trenches and holes, made to serve
the same purpose they served In
France during the war. "pock-mark"
many Irish lanes. A young English
man, who recently walked most Of the
way from Dublin to Belfast, became so
used to these signs Of warfare that
he refers to them as "the usual tren-
ches and holes" in his descriptions
Of the country through which he pass
ed. Shooting, it appears, is almost
always going on somewhere within the
hearing of traveller. Men walk
abroad in "hpurly peril Of their lives
The bitterness Of life in Ireland TO-
day, says this correspondent, Is far
greater than at any other time in his
memory. The writer himself who con-
tributes his account to the London
Times, is introduced by his paper
merely as "a young Englishman, un-
connected with the staff of any news
paper. who determined on his release
from his military duties, to visit Ire
land and form his own opinions HIS
story runs in part:
The abiding impression Of Limerick
Is of the soldiers walking through the
streets in their curious patrol forma-
ton. A line of six men in fighting Or
der with arms at the trail comes first,
followed by file Of men on opposite
sides of the street, then the officer ana
his senior commissioned officers
in the center of the roadway, another
file of men and another line.
In Limerick more than elsewhere
there was strongly present sense OF
sinister and subterranean forces at
work-though indeed. this feeling IS
nrevalent throughout Ireland. The
brooding shadow Of the mayors OCal-
larhan and Clancy (and of less noto-
rious deeds, which will never see the
light of day), still lay upon the place.
was particularly impressed with TINS
impending quality when walking oach
from the northern outskirts one not
evening. Soldiers and girls were
strol,,nr arm in arm under the new
towering lllacs and chestnuts,. white
clad young men and wori1en-were pay
ing lawn tennis in gardens, o:d men
we're smoking and talking on the Va
randa of 4 club that .ovcrlooks the
river. A more peaceful scene couto
hardly be imagined. Az eaSl
ond of the Sarsfleld and Thomond
bridges pickets of soldiers with t.xeo
bavonets were posted. A military paho
w1s nlaying somewhere near ana
found il eventually huddled away IN a
yard I'D an alley, nobody talking any
except a sentry, who stood at the en-
trance And even as you watched the
river scene and the red houses on ehe
farther bank, warmed by the sunset
the sound of shots came-as usual a'
that hour-from across the ShannoI'
Nor was my visit to Limerick with
out insight into what can only De
ca,,ed the bitterness of life in Ireland
today 7 learned of the decay OF the
,itv of the absolute lack Of buylhG
and selling of the markets that can
not ba held and of the country people
who on market days are turneo oaoH
from the gates Of the town.
took train for the northeast, pe-
ing entertained through the journey
nv one Of those merry old 1rishmen
wbo per Sc, proclaimed ireland a
nation" All the way he talked ano
sang songs, telling a friend OF no"
ho nsed tn play the Garnet" In tl'
local band and of how his father mac
told him (early) that he'd Voic'
like crow or a bridge falling
Once he opened Dublin paper: AN
1obn Traynoor-they've hanged. him.
uc took off his hat. Hes joined Inc
souls of those who have died for Ire
land"
Dunda'k in Louth, is hotbed o
Sim Fcin, but at Newry, just oulsiu'
Down, YOU find the true gate OF VI
ster, with a population almost exact!
half and half. The turnpike betwee1
is the main one from Dublin to be4
ra Ct Where the woods came down u
The road at Ravensdale, a bridge ha'
,,oon damaged and for three or lou
miles the telegraph wires had pee'
systematically cut. Beyond Ncwrs
however, over the thirteen mfes
cambridge, conditions were norma
except for an extraordinary absenc
of traffic. At cambridge I noticed thre
ruincd houses and was Informed ina
they had been the property OF SIN
Fciners and had been burned 10 III
Ground by Protestants after the mur
der of local man in Cork.
NV first experience of lister tol
,vas in a little town which must d
namcIcss. but in which l found wv
! cordial and hospitablc friends, "n
long after the curfcw ran the blockad
5 Of po'icc with bottle of whisky 10
nv speciul benefit. In a little OHIO
~ tho hack of shop lit by a cano'