Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-01
|64 DIE IN BELFAST
IN Terror MONTH
Blacklist Thirty Days in His
tory-MKders and Out.
RACES Continue.
BY the Associated Press.

G4SA<C AS1 April line roll OF Ia
talities from the factional disorders
in Belfast reached a total of sixty1
four for the month of March-the
blacklist month in BeIfasts history
The last victim of the month Was
Francis Flynn. who died last night
from the effects Of injuries received
in recent bombing outrage.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
last evening to set fire to a large en-
cheering establishment on the east
side of Belfast. Two unexploded
bombs were found on the premises.
Police and Troops Clash.
A fierce fight between a party Of
publican army took place nine miles
from Cookstown, near the eastern
border of Tyrone county. Ulster. at
midnight last night.
The police were engaged in patrol
ling the district, which is mountain
GUS, when they came upon a large
body of soldiers drilling. The patrol
took cover and in the ensuing battle
the police commander, Acland, was
wounded and the soldiers lost one
killed and a number wounded.
train from Belfast to Dublin was
held up at Dunleer, County Louth.
today by forty armed men wearing
trench coats, leggings and caps. The
men entered the mail coach and re-
moved all letters and parcels from
Belfast. During the raid the train
crew and the Dunleer station staff
were covered by revolvers.
Boy Killed By Bomb.
laborer named Donnelly was
seated at the fireside last night read
ing the terms of the London peace
pact to his wife from a newspaper
when a bomb was thrown which
killed his three-year-old son and
wounded two other children and Dom
nelly himself.
Donnelly had just remarked to his
wife that the troubles in Belfast
were over when the bomb was hurled.
The child was sleeping in his baby
chair when killed.
Four shots were fired, but without
effect. at Mrs. Donnelly, who was
nursing an infant.
LONDON, April 1.-The Dublin
brigade of the Irish republican army
has been modified for parade to-
morrow morning to take a new oath
of allegiance, or an oath with new
implications" says statement issuef
from the army headquarters in Beg
CARS Bush barracks. as telegraphed
by the Daily Nails correspondent.
The officers and men" the state
ment adds, must understand that the
real purpose Of the mobilization is to
take them away from their position
under general headquarters as the
army of the government of the people
Of Ireland"
(The correspondent in a previous dis
patch reported that the republican
committee had ordered a secret
mobilization of the republican sec
ton of the army, possibly with
the intention of violent action.)
Cargo of Explosives Seized.
Raiders yesterday seized the cargo
Of explosives, chiefly gelignite. aboar
and slowed it safely In some unknown
place. according to a dispatch to thu
London Times from Cork.
The movement of large numbers o,
motor lorries, which were comman-
to an unknown destination, is now
explained as being a part of the coup
to intercept the admiralty vessel,
which was due to leave Cork We'd
nesday afternoon for Rock Island,
with q cargo. understood to have con-
sisted mainly of gelignite. which was
to have been transported to England.
Hope Tempered with Fear.
Hope, tempered with doubt and
fear, is the keynote Of the morning
newspaper editorial comment on the
outlook in Ireland in view of the pas
sage of the Anglo-Irish treaty bill
and the agreement between the
northern and southern governments
for cooperation in pacification of the
country.
None of the writer's expects the two
documents Immediately to bring about
peace, which, it is remarked, has
many enemies. and in several in
stances it is contended that the agree
ment is quite likely instead to in
crease the trouble for a time. The
Daily Telegraph adopts. to express its
view the statement of Secretary of
Colonies Churchill that "a long.
dreary period of anxiety is ahead"
The Daily News asks whether, with
all the good will in the world, the
signatories to the agreement can
honor their bond. while the Morning
Post, although giving credit to the
signers for making the agreement,
says its terms settle nothing.
1t is generally conceded that the
law-abiding sections in Ireland will
welcome the prospects of peace and
work earnestly for it, but the inter-
nal conditions of the country are re-
garded as so dangerous that no entire
confidence in the issue is held any