Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-31

Thlrty-elght witnesses of alleged
atrocities including 18 Irish, 18
American and two English citizens,
testified before the commission. The
commission admits that its report is
eX parte in spite of its efforts to
hear all sides. The testimony avail
able, the report saws, gives the case
therefore, almost wholly from the
Irish republican or Sim Fein view
point or from sources not unsym-
pathetic to the application of the
principle of lf-determnation To
Ireland The Ulster Unionist view
point and that of the British author
titles in Ireland, the report says, were
not represented among the wit
nesses.
Summing up its conclusions after
hearing all the testimony, the com
mission finds that the Irish people
IRE deprived of the protection of
British law, to which they would be
ntitled as subjects of the British
gtw, to which they would be entitled
as subject of the British King.
hey are likewise deprived of the
moral protection granted by inter
ational law, { D which they would be
entiyled as Delligerents. They are
at the mercy oI imperial British
forces winch, acting contrary both to
ali. law and to standards of human
conduct, have instituted in Ireland
a terror, the evidence regarding
which seems to prove that:
Committees Findings.
81. The Imperial British govern
ment has created and introduced
into Ireland a force of at least 49,
600 men, many of them youthful and
inexperienced, and some of them
convicts; and has melted that force
to unbridled violence.
SO. The Imperial British forces in
Ireland have indiscriminately killed
innocent men, women and children;
have tortured and shot prisoners
while in custody, adopting the sub.
terfuges of refusal to halt and at
tempting to escape; and have at
tributed to alleged Sim Fein Ex-
tremists' the British assassination
of prominent Irish Republicans.
50. House-burning and wanton de
struction of villages and cities by
Imperial British forces under I'M
perial British officers have been
countenanced, and ordered by Off,
cials of the British government; and
elaborate provision by gasoline
sprays and bombs has been made in
a number Of instances for systematic
incendiarism as part of a plan of
terrorism.
a. A campaign for the destruc.
ton of the means of existence of the
Irish people has been conducted by
the burning of factories, creameries,
crops and farm implements and the
shooting of farm animals. This
campaign is carried on regardless of
the political views of their owners,
and results in widespread and acute
suffering among women and chill
dren.
"5. Acting under series of proc
lamations issued by the competent
military authorities of the Imperial
British forces, hostages are carried
by forces exposed to the fire of the
Republican army; fines are levied
upon towns and villages as punish
ment for alleged offenses of indi.
viduals; private property is destroy
ed in reprisals for acts with which
the owners have no connection; and
the civilian population is subjected
to an inquisition upon the theory
that individuals are in possession of
information valuable to the military
forces of Great. Britain. These acts
of the Imperial British forces are
contrary to the laws of peace or war
among modern civilized nations.
Results of Terror.
"6. This terror has failed to re-
establish Imperial British civil gov.
ernment in ireland. Throughout the
greater part of Ireland British
courts have ceased to function; To-
cal, county and city governments
refuse to recognize British authori
ty; and British civil officials fulfill