New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-02-12
Britain Orders
An Inquiry Into
Irish Sllootilless
Government, Investigation
of Mailow Incident Fol
lows Threat bv Union
to Tie Up All Railroads
Military TO Rum Probe
Workers Expected TO Hold
OFF Action orr Strike
Pending Official Report
From The Trtoaae's Europeon Bureas
Copyright. 1921, New York Tribune Inc.


LONDON, Feb. 11.-The Irish Office
announced to-day that General Sir
Nevil Macready, military commander
in Ireland, acting under Instructions
from Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief Sec
rotary, would institute government
investigat ton of the shootings January
81 in Mallow. Ireland,
This is regarded in some quarters
as victory for the Union of Locomo-
tive Engineers and Firemeu, which on
Wednesday threatened to call a gem
eral strike unless the Cabinet under
took an inquiry before February 10.
Whether the investigation viii satisfy
the unions is not known. as it is re-
called that General Strickland's re-
port on the burning of Cork never has
been published, although the inquiry
was completed SIX weeks ago under
Greenwood's direction.
Step in Right Direction
John Bromley, NJ. P, president Of
the union that threatened the strike,
discussing the governments announce
ment said:
"If an inquiry is to be made in Ire
land, that, at least is 8 ctep IN the
right direction. But only the fullest
and faireSt inquiry will meet our de-
mands -
The executive Of the National Union
of Railwaymen a separate oroaniza-
ton, discussed the Mailow incident at
meeting to-day and proposed the
raising Of the question Of the Killing
of railwaymen for discussion IN Par
lament, The executive decided TO
defer action in the matter until il
could be debated publicly.
Lloyd George, who yesterday said
that the government wolid not be
moved by threats, took up the matter
for discussion before the Cabinet to-
day.
The newspaper consensus is that the
railway men will mark time pending
the result of the investigation Most
OF the newspapers express opposition
to direct action in a political dispute
More Repressive Measures
The military in Ireland continue to
put repressive measures into effect.
Besides conscripting local male popula-
tons in different cities for service as
civil guards, they are isolating large
section OF West Kerry, after the man
ner of the recent preparatio about
Dublin. The blockhouse system has
been established in some places as in
the Boer war, 1t is understood that
ing movements designed to clear out
the republican concentration centers.
DUBLIN, Feb. 11-Desmond Fitz-
gerald, Sim Fem Minister Of Propa.
ganda, was ARE sted here tonight His
arrest is considered as probably the
most important since Arthur Griffith
founder OF the. Sim Fem, was taken
into custody.
Fitzgerald was mainly responsible
for the Irish Bulletin, which made
statements almost daily of the Sim
Fem case against the government and
was widely circulated among the news
paper men. The Bulletin constantly
has been obliged to change offices in
consequence Of military raids, but con-
tinued to be secretly produced.
Fitzgerald who has been the main
point of contact between the newspa-
pers and Republican chiefs, is declared
to have been on the run for weeks. He
is under thirty and married. He is
well known as a writer