The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-09
ULSTER BORDER
Line OF STEEL
TO HALT RAIDS
New InvasiOns by Sim Fein
Reported Today.
Captives Taken Wednesday Are
Reported Free.
HOLD SINN FEIN RESPONSIBLE
None of Men Kidnapped by Raid
erS Are Freed.
New Irish Government Takes
Steps Against Raiders.
Captives Taken Wednesday Are
Reported Free.
HOLD SINN FEIN RESPONSIBLE
None of Men Kidnapped by Raid
erS Are Freed.

Belfast, Feb. 9.-Armed republican
raiders swept across the Ulster from
tier again today and seized nine SOL
managh county.
Fire broke out at Ennis Kilen. the
largest city in Fermanagh county. and
was in progress sporadically at last re-
ports. The men kidnapped in Donegal
county were reported to have been
released this evening.
Sir r. Dawson Bates. NJ. P. min
lister of home affairs in the Ulster SOW
eminent, estimated that about 200
persons were Kidnapped.
Fighting in Belfast.
Fighting which accompanied whole
sale raids and kidnapings in the south
ern counties of Ulster province has
spread to Belfast and one man was
killed here early today. There was
desultory firing in the streets thruout
the night.
Dublin castle (now controlled by the
Irish provisional government) is .un-
derstood to have telegraphed to ths
Ulster commandant of the Irish RS
publican army and his staff, ordering
wires which delayed information from
reaching the ministry OF defense.
The Ulster government has been
promised the assistance of British
troops if the troubles grow worse.
Reprisals by the Ulster Orangemen
are feared.
1t is understood the Irish provi-
check the activities OF the Sim Feiu-
ers and that the Sim Feiners residing
in Ulster have been warned that they
will be held responsible for any fur
ther aggressions.
British Troops Ready.
The British government announced
that it did not wish to interfere in the
Irish dispute, but that it had fourteen
battalions of troops under arms in
| Ulster that were available If ii became
| absolutely necessary to use them.
According to a Central News dis
patch' from Belfast, 5000 Ulster
troops (police?) are being concentrat-
! ed upon the Ulster boundary. Border
trouble is threatening today.
British government officials are
watching the situation close and are
convinced that the members of the
!
possible to restore order and to PR
went raids across the Ulster frontier.
Frontier Is "Line of Steel"
| (By the Associated PressI
Belfast, Feb. 9.-Ulsters frontier
was virtually a line OF steel today
following the raids yesterday in which
many unionists were kidnapped.
From Portadown. County Armagh,
to Belleek. on the Fermanagh-Done
- .r..ff
guard as well as heavy contingents Of
the regular constabulary.
| 1t was estimated that five thousand
men were engaged in policing the line.
The forces began TO move toward
the border yesterday The roads lead
ing southwark from Belfast today pre-
sented scenes of activity, motor trucks
and armored cars bearing the so-calied
"A" and "B" specials. Accompanying
them were other trucks with stores
and ammunition. High tension pre-
walls at all points.
Strangers travelling thru the six
counties are subject to the closest
scrutiny. No communication was pos
sibIe with Enniskillen.
Colonel Wickham, commanding the
Ulster specials, has received a com
imunication from Dublin castle stating
that the provisional government Is
sending special officers to investigate
the kidnapping.
A county police inspector said no
reprisal had been attempted over
night by the unionists.
Kidnap Men StiII Held.
(By the Associated Pressb
London, Feb. 9.-AIl the Ulster
gnionists kidnapped in yesterdays .
raids with the exception of those
taken in Vigo, were still held today.
according to latest reports from Ire
land. Their number was variousiy
reported. the highest estimate being
nearly two hundred, altho most ac-
counts put the figure considerably
lower
The Morning Posts Belfast CORES
pondent who reports from the Ulster
point of view. says, over sixty" are
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