New Britain herald., 1921-03-03
s5O,OOO WEEKLY IS
 NEEDED IN IRELAND
American Committee Makes This
 Report Alter Investigating

| report Just received by cable by the
 American committee for relief in
 Ireland from C. I. France. brother
 of Senator France of Maryland 1 heading the unit of individual Am ! friends. dispatched by the committee 1 to Ireland. Director France reported sthat members of the unit had in- vestigated conditions Tn several cities, | including Dublin, Belfast. Lisburn | and Cork and in Counties Longford. ! Roscommon. Westmeath. Sligo and LeitrinI. and it is estimated that S5O,- O0e weekly is necessary for emer- 1 Gency relief alone. Of this sum sI5.- GOO will be used in Belfast and sI0,- 900 in Cork.
 Tells of Suffering.
 The report says:
 'tLisburn We found in greater com
 parative distress than possibly any
 other Irish city excepting Cork. A
 British officer who served in Belgium
 told Us he had never seen anything
 like it.
 Tn August 232 families were
 compelled to leave their homes,
 owing to burnings, wreckings, pr
 intimidations. and 13o families have
 not yet dared to return. Several
 hundred women and children scant- lily clothed. fled from their homes on the night of the general burnings and made their way during the night 10 Belfast, over twesve miles of hill side roads. Mothers carrying chn- dren this distance arrived at Belfast the following noon with bare feet Inc he sheltered by the local committee headed by Bishop Macrory.
 'Thgee American citizens were burned out of their homes at Lis burn. One of them was Thomas
 Caldwell. formerly Hugenot street. Now Rochelle. who enlisted June 1917, in Company A. 331st Machine Gun Battalion, sand Division and fought at St Mihiel, Argonne forest and Verdun front. He told us 5000 people were in the mob that burned his place. In all 119 tradespeople, both Catholic and Protestant, suf- fered losses.
 'In Cork at present tthe Cork dis tress fund headed by Deputy Lord Mayor and local business men, has been distributing from s2.400 to $4.0o0 weekly among 500 heads of families aggregating four thousand men, women and children, who were rendered destitute by the burning of the city. but only S16,000 now re- ! mains in this fund. and there are in addition other families in acute need which they have been unable to as- 1 sist. We are instituting plans for complete study of local emergency and future reconstruction needs here.
 'Spicer and Longstreth. of the unit. reporting on counties Roscom- mon and Westmeath, estimate need Of sl,200 weekly for desUtute fami- Hes Of workmen and s12.000 for res toration of farm buildings destroyed Baker and Frunas. of the unit rec ommend $50 weekly to relieve urgent distress of twenty families in County Longford in towns of Longford Gran ird, Ballinalee. They state that the tllage of Ballinalee was virtually -azed and presents a picture equalling stories of villages destroyed in France. Wilbur and Price. of the unit re- porting on Counties Sligo and Lei rim, visited six destroyed creameries. including Ballymote, Achonry. Tub : Swanlinbar Ballintrillie, and ,arnadoe. the last named in County roscommon. Estimated cost of re- building and equipment is S14O.000. HeSe SIX creamefieS affect nearly A. 100 farmers and their families, and f they arc not rebuilt this spring here is grave danger that the farm ITS will have 10 sell their milch cows nd thus terminate the butter-making in the regions affected"
 Workers Are Expelled.
 Tho report includes full sum nary of the precarious situation of he expelled workers in Belfast. where 5000 Roman Catholic ship ard workers were driven from their mployment last July. and they with heir dependents. some 30.0o0 per ons in all, have since been depend mt on relief. Director France trans nitted m appeal to American labor n behalf of these starving workers. ssued by n joint committee of the 'elfast Labor party and the Belfast , 'radc Union council. This section of he report reads:
 During tho past six months the xpellcd workers and their depend