The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-23
LONDON NEWSPAPERS
AROUSED BY MURDER
OF NOTED WAR HERO
(Rv Associated Pressl

LONDON, June 23.-The London
newspapers without exception this
morning expressed regret at the MUIR
der of Field Marshal Wilson.
The Daily Telegraph, which does not
doubt that the crime can be traced to
the Republican murder gang, believes
that what called forth the outrage was
the defeat of the Republicans in the re-
cent Irish elections.
1T was a gesture of mad defiance by
the beaten extremists and an an
nouncement of their determination to
pursue the work of wrecking the treaty
settlement by intensifying the attack
on Ulster" says the newspaper
Their hopes and sins are all Of blood
shed, ruin, mystery, and they would
readily sacrifice their own friends for
a realization of them"
1t expresses the view that the whole
Of Ireland is so saturated with lies and
homicidal indictments that the present
crime may fail to stir the conscience
of the people in whose name it was
perpetrated"
The Daily Mail remarks that Field
Marshal Wilson had been attacked in
the Dublin press by 'series of loath-
some cartoons of Infamous malevol-
ence" and reproduces one of these
from the Freeman's Journal. The Mail
calls upon Wilson's countrymen to hon.
or his memorw by acts which will
stamp out the assassins and bring pun
ishment to those VIII oinstigated them" !"
Denounces Government
The Morning Post describes the muir
der as part of an attempt to make
Englishmen slaves Of terror such as
/ the Irishmen are slaves of today" The
newspaper fiercely denounces the Eng
! lish government and the parliamentary
opposition for "surrendering to murder
and violence in compounding with as
sassins and thereby sealing the fate
of the brave men who stood out against
that surrender"
I'VE do not fear to say 1t goes on
that it surrendered the cause Of law
and order. Lloyd George, Chamber
I lain and Asquith all shared in the
murder of Marshal Wilson and are be
dabbled with his blood"
| The Westminster Gazette says:
"The callousness and futility of the as
sassination are almost overshadowed
in the first impression of its wicked
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fair hopes of reconciliation based or
the new situation in Ireland. Had the
wretched agents of a perverted ven
geance deliberately sought the mean:
that would most surely destroy the
sympathy of the Irish people they
could not have chosen a surer path
"To Ulster and to those who sym
pathize with Ulster a new count il
added to the wretched feud that ha!
already cost so many lives"
Urges Judgment Suspended
i The newspaper urges suspension O
Judgment regarding responsibility fol
the crime and deprecates indicting {
nation for an act which cannot b.
assumed, without evidence, to hav,
been the work even of clique"
The Daily News contends that tn
disgusting outrage" has not even th
palliation that might be urged in be
half of the murder of an oppressor
1t continues: THE most distorted in
telligence could not represent Wilson
as Ireland's tyrant. The crime wa
apparently political, the mere col
blooded killing of a defenseless ma
on account of his opinions"
The newspaper classes the Grim
with ''the orgy of murder which ha
been raging for weeks past in Belfast,
and adds. 1T casts as black a stat
on the Sim Feiners as the butchery c
the MacMahans on the Orangenen.
Some of the newspapers commen
with enthusiasm on the behavior c
the police and civilians who riske
death in capturing the murderer!
contrasting it with what happen
under similar circumstances in Irt
I land where they say the murderer
; invariably walk away unmolested.