The New York herald., 1922-11-20
Demands Irish Start Move
ment Within Hour if
Sacrifice Is Made.
REBELS DIE BY OWN NINE
Believed Ambuscade Was Be-
inc Fixed for Free StaterS
When Blast Occurred.

DUBLIN, Nov. 10 ASSOCIATED Press).
-Erskine Childers. one OF canon de
Yaleras chief lieutenants, who was
captured by Free State troops and
tried on a charge of carrying arms by
the recently instituted military court,
has been convicted. If he is executed
De Valera threatens heavy reprisals.
Childers's trial was concluded Satur-
day after his counsel had withdrawn
from the case when the court refused
to sustain their contention that he
should be tried as a prisoner of war.
His sentence has not been announced.
CFour men were executed Friday by
the Free State after they had been con-
victed by military court of carrying
loaded revolvers in Dublin. Their case
was discussed in the Dali, where Presi-
dent William Cosgrave summed up the
Governments policy as follows: IF De
Valera is going to lead his followers, as
he said. to victory OF determination, it
is the Governments duty to see that it
isn't victory" He said a series of rebel
reprisals might be expected, but it was
better to "do It now and get it over."1
De Valera Issues Threat.
De Valera in a message to the people
of ireland to-day asserts that the
British Government has given orders
for the execution OF Erskine Childers,
and declares that such crime will
make the men and women Of our race
hang their heads in shame"
'If this order is carried out. he con-
tinues, mot all the blood that will flow
as a consequence viii expiate our ma
tional guilt. We shall be called nation
of slaves and the slaves of slaves, and
we shall not be left with an answer"
Declaring that Childers remained In
corruptible when many became corrupt,
he concludes: "If it is not the peoples
will that q faithful and loyal servant
should be sacrificed to any of Church
ms hate, then within an hour you will
rise UP and fling from the positions
they have usurped and dishonored those
who would dare so to blacken forever
the fair name of this nation"
Dublin is suffering an acute attack OF
the nerves, partly owing to De Valera's
threat of reprisals IL Erskine Childers is
executed and partly through the horror
Of the Inchichore explosion and other
happenings. One incident to-day testi-
fled to the state of tension.
Rebels KILLED Planting Mine.
When a lorry loaded with Free State
soldiers passed slowly through a crowd
holding a meeting of protest IN connec-
ton with the hunger strike of Mary
MacSwiney and her sister many in the
crowd shouted abusive epithets. A shot
was fired from the crowd and the sol
diers replied with a volley in the air,
which provoked a panic. This was fol-
lowed by machine gun fire and three
civilians are reported to have been
wounded.
Annie MacSwiney is maintaining her
vigil outside Mountjoy prison where
Mary MacSwiney has been fasting since
November 6.
Four men were killed by the explosion
at Inchichorc last night. one having died
in the hospital and three being killed
outright. Two survivors are In the hos
pital badly injured. Just prior TO the
explosion a party OF men was seen
carrying a heavy article from the field
beside the Mas road.
The explosion was accompanied by a
great burst OF flame. People in nearby
houses were shocked by the violence OF
thu detonation. The dead men were so
nutilated that Identification was impos-
sible. Firearms and ammunition were
found beside nearby wall and IL Is be-
lieved an ambuscade was being prepared