The Washington herald., 1921-05-27
.MUICAHY MEN
BURN ESTATES
OF LOYALISTS
Phantom Generals Force
Spreads New Terror
About Cork.
MORE INTENSIFIED
WARFARE FEARED
Greenwood Claims Amer
lean Ammunition Cap
tured from Irish.

(speciaI cabis to III, Warrington Herald
and United Esvs.)
LONDON. May 2s.-Ireland's ar
son war broke out again in another
sector today. Several big mansions
of loyaIists in the Cork region were
ruined by incendiary fires as groups
of civilians In Dublin sadly viewed
the ruins of the customs house, still
smouldering 20 hours after the at
tack. and reflected that here burned
the funeral pyre of their peaceful
hopes.
The home of Sir Alfred Dobbin.
near Cork. was entered by an armed
squad this afternoon. The members
of the family who chanced to be
present were elected, gasoline was
poured in the main rooms and the
place went up in flames.
Another group burned the home Of
Eden Pike. justice of the peace,
seven miles out of Cork. simultane-
ously there were other fires in the
Cork area and various outrages
throughout Ireland.
Fires Set in Repri.aI.
The Cork fires were regarded as
a counter reprisal in answer to the
burning of civilians houses at
Black Rook by British soldiers last
Tuesday as a government reprisal
for shooting -outrages.
At the Irish office one is i'm
pressed by the fear of officials that
the drastic measures Of the, extrem-
lists are the beginning of q new
period of intensified warfare. But
the officials are not discouraged By
events so far and still entertain
strong hopes Of peace, believing that
the outbreaks are the work OF the
Richard Mulcahy clique of radical
rebels, not of the De Valera group.
WIN which peace negotistions are
still progressing.
All day the blackened walls of
the Dublin customs house smould-
cred and rustled as fragments of
debris fell away and fell into the
ashes of what was once one of the
fiuest public buildings in Ireland.
The street approaches to the build
ing were barricaded with barbed
wire.
Belfast I'm Fear.
Belfast was tense and expectant
of renewed rioting.
In London, Sir Hamar Greenwood
declared that among the ammuni-
tion coniscated from rebels in the
M
l6,3ss rounds of ammunition small
arms shells. Former Col. Arthur
Shee inferred from this that Great
Britain should make representations
to the United States but il was
learned upon inquiry at the Irish
office that the ammunition, being
of assorted manufacture. apparently
was smuggled into ireland in small
quantities. In view of this fact and
slst of the fact that the total
amount is considered Insignificant,
the Irish ONCE believes there is no
ineton.
BELFAST, May 26.-Eamonn De
Valera. president of the Irish re-
public; Arthur Griffith, imprisoned
vice president of the Sim Fein. and
Michael Collins, phantom rebel
known as the head of the 'repub-
lican army" all won seats in the
North of Ireland parliament in the
Ulster election. IL is learned from
returns so far compiled.
The unionists got Is of the is Bel
fast seats. and Joseph Devlin. ma
tionalist. took the sixteenth, as
shown by complete returns for the
city.
De Valera and Sir James Craig,
the Ulster unionist leader. head of
the northern parliament, each won
a seat for county Down. Grifith
was returned by Tyrone and Collins
by Armagh. Sim Feiners cap
tured the entire delegation from
Derry City. Prof. John MacNeill,
noted Sim Fein leader, was elected
In Topdopdarry