Evening journal., 1922-06-06
Today's News Today
Ireland, Free Six Months Still
Seethes With Murder and Arson
Bv NEA service.

BY NEA Service.
DUBLIN--Blood flows more free
ly than ever in ireland nearly half
year after the creation of the Irish
Free State
A bitter religious war RACES in u
ster, while South Ireland sits on the
volcano edge of civil war. And Bel
fast is city of murder, bombing
and incendiarism.
Will peace ever come? Ireland
awaits a miracle while factional
leaders-Arthur GriHth, Michael
Collins, Esmonn de Valera, Sir
James Craig and David Lloyd George
strive for settlement.
Politics and religion were stirred
into an explosive mixture in Ulster
when Dail Eireann. representing 26
counties OF South Ireland. approved
the treaty creating these counties
into the Irish Free State, an inde-
pendent government within the Brit
ish Empire, similar to Canada and
Australia.
Orsngemen in North Ireland oh
jected. Border warfare broke out.
Armed men clashed on the frontier
between Ulster and South Ireland.
Belfast, which is three-fourths Pro-
testant and one-fourth Catholic, be-
came the boiling pot.
Division l. Religious.
Most Protestants are Unionists,
desiring Ulster either 10 remain a
part Of Great Britain or become self
governing Independent of South Ire
land. Most Catholics there are Ma I
tionslists. desiring either free Irish /
republic or an Irish Free state, such !
as has been set up.
Homes have been rsided, men and ]
women shot in their beds. crowds /
bombed. houses burned. Murder and 1
battle are worse every interval from (
Saturday night until Monday morn
Ing when the factories are closed:
each weekend is bloody holiday.
On recent Saturday-to-M Monday
il persons were killed and nine
wounded in Belfast alone.
Who is to blame for the atroci-
ties? Each side accuses the other.
The Ulster Unionist government
blames members OF the Sim Fein
party and claims members OF the
Irish Republican party are trying
to intimidste the people and the
OF Ulster.
Daii Eireann. the parliament OF
South ireland. offers statistics to
support It's contention that Ulster
ties are the aggressors and Catholics !
the chief victims.
They list ss7 persons killed and
1883 wounded in Belfast from July,
1920. when several thousand Cath :
olic workmen were expelled from
the Belfast shipyards up to May. /
2s, 1922. They give these figures for {
four weeks OF East April: "a Cath ,
olics killed. ~ wounded; II protest /
ants killed. "a wounded; rs houses ,
burned. houses bombed
Civil War In South.
No such loss Of life has occurred I
in South ireland. But the differ
ences between De Valera, advocate
OF republic. and Grifith and Col
lins advocates Of the Free State.
caused a cleavage not only in Dali
Eireann. but also in the Sim Fein
organization and in the Irish Repub-
lican army.
Republican ana Free State troops ,
have been at swords points, the
Dublin courts were seized by the
former. newspaper ONCE was
wrecked. and banks were raided in
IL southern cities. Policemen and !
'itizens have been killed, and in
april Brig. Gen. Adamson was killed Il
" armed men after putting his
lands up as ordered. And in the "
anne month Michael Collins was II
hot at y
And last month, while Collins and D,
)e Valera were trying 10 arrange a bl
government to prevent pi
ivii war in South Ireland. the trans &C
ort workers union seized great Ii
lumber Of creameries and hoisted n
he red nag. ev