The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
bIERS
BEAT 0!1. SAILORS,
COMMITTEE TOLD
Seamen Describe Cork
Scenes-0'Gallaghan
Tells of Murders.

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allegations Of assaults and nu-
nerous attacks with weapons upon
United States seamen by Black and
Tan policemen in Cork by the men
concerned We'd with the story Of
the burning and looting OF his city
sy penasa ]. O'CaIlaghan' lord
ms*or of Cork, to the American
connlssioa on Ireland in the Hotel
Ia ipget1e Friday
M seans6n, showing marks Of
Hogging, took the stand as Lord
Mayor O'Callaghan concluded. his
testimony.
0'CaIlaghan concluded with an
appeaI for Ireland and a challenge
which moved the large audience TO
applause.
Irish Fight In Earnest.
.It we are told that neither
America nor any other nation which
sees sus bleeding to death, despite
alTsthat was said about self-deter-
inhibition, meant what they said.
ana that It is now admitted to be
.hunnbug,' in our case it will not be
humbug. We will continue the
night, be the result what 1t may
O'CaiIaghan declared.
|. Emil Pezolt q years old, of Chi
cago, junior engineer OF the west
Cannon, which carried cargo OF
v-I@at from Portland, Grlgr to Cork
lasa fall. arriving in the latter city
in December, said:
NV first visit on shore, to nave
A bair Of boots repaired, gave me
a taste of life in Cork. Every min
uts Il was Halt, hands up, and
ther advance and be searched. The
searching always was accomplished
with a revolver pressed against
yOur stomach.
LEFT U. 5. Passports Behind
Discovery Of your American
passport always led to additional
irsults, so that we soon left these
on. board. Frequent rObbertes OF
tbs British military taught us to
take little money with us and to
rarrv that in our shoes. We were
1reh1ently assaulted and returned
IL aSsmuch as possible with interest.
EReturninE from the theater on
the night of December II, ABOUT
g.A O'Clock l ran into a group Of
sofdiers who were searching CIVIL
iak at the points of guns. They
made me put up my hands, searcheq
ma. and asked me who was.
told them l was an American sailor
from the West Cannon.
-Dh, you are one of those damned
Au-f,ICars, are yOU:" cried the ON
GER IN charge. and he hit me in the
fa-c- with his first, which was
armed with a set of brass knuckles.
The tothers jumped on me. was
krpck ed down repeatedly and stun
ned my head striking the curb.
kicked Him Up, Knocked Him Down
aThey kept kicking me until I got
unsand would then knock me down
arsin. They said they would shoot
ne. and told me to run for my ship.
Ass often as l started they called
me back and shot past my head II
/ did not come back at once. They
took my pass port, fountain pen' all
my money and even my pocket
Comu Finally when they let me go
1 SOuId hardly walk"
PeEolt said his captain immedi-
ately entered a protest with the
American consul, Mason Mitchell
AnssgopeaI to Gen. Strickland, Brit
isF4cpmmander in Cork. brought the
repiv that the men who committed
the2 assault had left the city and II
wohId be impossible to recover the
stolen articles. An appeal also was
made to the State Department, Pc
zOIt said.
Henry Turk. OF San Francisco;
Harold Johnson, of Bucks County
Pa, and Robert Taylor, Of Scott
Township, Pa, also members of the
n
pitIabIe condition Of PeZOlt on the
night he reached the ship and to the
repe ated insults they had them
selves endured at the hands Of the
British military when on leave in
Cork
Describes SlRyings of Priests.
OsCauaghan shocked the commits
sion and audience with his story of
the. murders of Irish priests and at
taeks on members of the clergy.
He testified that Father O'Calla-
CHAN. a Catholic priest, was muir
dered by the British military forces
WHEN he was about to come to
Anae Eica to testify before the com
mission. Canon Magner, an aged
prisst near Cork, also was murdered
by3 she British, and Father Mac
Chhreh in Cork, he said had his
clothes torn from his and an at
tempt made to force him to write a
shocking insult to the Pope.
Q6alIaghan directly charged the
burning of Cork to the British
cToTh forces in Cork and recalled
that ,the report by the British labor
cOAnission which Investigated Ire
Land mad laid the fire to the crown
forces.
EeAders OF the arson squad which
buthkd Cork, the lord mayor said,
were. English civilians imported by
the British authorities for that spe-
ctar purpose.
-RepubIIean" Store wrecked.
Thomas Nolan. proprietor of a
dry goods store in Galway, told the
commission how his store had been
wrecked and hts life threatened be-
CAUSE he hung up a sign on his
sheps T. Nolan, Republican Out
fttsrP'
Dekision by Secretary Of Labor
wilson in the deportation proceed
ings against Lord Mayor O'Calla-
CHAN, OF Cork. which has been de-
Inandcd virtually by the Dera rtment
of SsGte. is expected TO be announced
today.