The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-10
ARMY is ON Line
Ulster Forces With British Or
ficers Guard Frontiers.
Ambush of Police by Sim Fein
-One Killed.
TO RELEASE CAPTIVES TODAY?
New Irish Government Now
Faces Strength Test.
Claimed Gun Men Supreme in
South Erin. e

London, Feb. 1O.-Great Britain has
warned the Irish provisional govern
ment at Dublin that British troops
will be used to protect Ulster if the
Irish republicans renew their raiding
activities on the Ulster frontier. it was
announced in the house of commons
this afternoon by Colonial Secretary
Winston Churchill.
Dublin, Feb. 10.-An army of 1000
| men commanded by former British
| army officers, has been concentrated
| on the Ulster side of the frontier in
the sector of the Armagh-Tyrone
| county line, according to information
received here this afternoon.
Belfast, Feb. 10 One policeman
| was killed when a party of thirty
armed Sim Feiners ambushed a de-
tachment of Ulster special constables
| at Claudy, near the Tyrone-Donegal
| county line today. There was a brisk
| exchange of shots.
Promise to Free Captors.
(By the Associated Press)
London, Feb. lot was reported
| from both Dublin and Belfast that
many of the men kidnapped in Ulster
would be released today but none ex-
! cept those who reached their homes
| patches, was yet known to be free and
| the whereabouts of the captives was
| still a mystery.
Several reports said they were all
concentrated at Ballybay in Monaghan
! county but it was stated they were
later moved to the south. Expec-
! tation that the men would be released
I today was apparently based on the re-
| port that Michael Collins and other
members of the southern provisional
| government were busy yesterday try
! ing to obtain their freedom and had
sent special officers from Dublin to
persuade the captors to release their
prisoners.
Test New States Power.
! It was questioned whether the pro-
| visional governments persuasions
| would be likely to be effective in any
! case, as the Irish republican army
nominally is not controlled by the pro-
visional government but by the Dali.
i Moreover, in some quart rs here sus
picion was attached to the provisional
| government itself in the matter of
! the rails because 1t was declared the
which the British auxiliary troops
handed over to the provisional govern
ment upon their demobilization.
! An article in the Daily Telegraph
/ remarks that. if the raids were not
| planned with the cOnnivance of the
/ provisional government, It is obvious
| that much of the material which was
passed to it by the British has reached
/ hands unfriendly to Mr.. Collins and
| his colleagues. 1t adds that there are
many signs that certain local COM
mandants of the Irish republican
/ army who supposed supported Collins
/ have now thrown their lot with
| Eamonn de Valera.
! Gunmen Are Supreme.
| After further intimations as to the
growing power of the republican eX-
! tremists, the writer says:
The gunner are supreme, and II
there is an early general election in
! southern Ireland competent authori-
/ ties believe the gun will decide the is
sue in favor of the Republican party.
! The Dublin correspondent of the
Times again urges the necessity for
Great Britain to pass quickly leglsla-
I ton giving effect to the Anglo-Irish
/ treaty so as to enable the provisional
| government to appeal to the electorate
with the least possible delay. He says
| it is the belief in Dublin that. accord
| ing to present plans. the legislation at
Westminster will not permit an elec-
ton in Ireland until the end of March
| or the beginning of April.
Extremists Are Preparing.
The extremists are making every
possible use of the interval. Their
strength today consists of the fact
! that it is an Unknown quantity. The
I Morning Posts political correspondent
says differences of opinion which
NAV have unexpected consequences
are developing in the British cabinet
as a result of the raids in Ulster and
! believes urgent instructions have been
sent to ireland to further acquisition
| of British arms and ammunition by
. the free state authorities.
j Sinn Fein Army Drilling.
| London, Feb. 1O.=The Belfast cor
respondent of the Evening News re-
ported great activity by Irish republi-
can soldiers on the free state side of
] the frontier.
! The following dispatch was received
! from Belfast at 10 o'clock:
'In view of a runnored atteni't At
rescue. the Sim Feiners have remoy Cd
/ the kidnapped Obstetrics southwards to
| the neighborhood of Balbay. whcre
/ they are being guarded by thousands
of members of the 1. Il. A. rltege IL
/ intense activity on the part of the
Sim Feiners: They are drilling al
I day long. Uniformed men are sent
out in scouting expeditions and mo-
tor cars scour the roads to prevent
possible attacks or attempts at res
/ cue
In addition to the 5000 police
massed along the Ulster border to pre-
vent further raids and kidnapings. the
British have shifted heavy for-as of
troops into Ulster. including thu fol-
( lowing:
| First West Yorkshire infantry. Sec
! ond Royal West Kents; First Royal
! Sussex; Fourth Worcesters; First
/ Royal Warwicks: First Essex: Second
East Lance. and the First Lincoin-
shire.
American Vessel Lost at Sea.
Key West. Fla. Feb. 1.-THE three