The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-31
DAILY NEWS LETTER
BY DANIEL O'CONNELL. International News Service Staff
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Dublin, Get. 3o-Ire1and is cursed with increasing banditry. Daily the reports Of robberies and holdups con tinue to grow. Youths of adventure some and dishonest natures are talk ing advantages of the guerilla warfare to stage numerous robberies. Thou sands of pounds have been stolen from the country banks and untold small store and groceries have been raided and the entire stores stolen Though these happenings are more frequeat in the country than in Dub lin, nevertheless the Irish capital has its problem of lawlessness to deal with.
 Ireland. with the exception Of Dub lin, is practically unpo1iced, and the new government must sooner or later establish a constabulary which will protect the earnings of the country population.
 Identity of many of the highway men is known, but it has been diff more difficult to convict, for jurymen have been threatened and warned of death if they convict
 Profiteers are hard at work in Dub in--that is as hard as profiteers ever work. Food prices are extremely high and loud clamors of protest are heard from the working classes.
 DubIin's streets are rocking with mud. The rainy season is here and the streets run with oozing streams of mud, all due to the fact that little or no provision has been made for the cleaning of the thoroughfares. Dublin taxpayers are assessed at rate higher than that of any other city in western Europe and are de- manding that they get something In return for their money. The prin- cipa1 streets are lucky if they are swept one day week and the small CT streets are never swept. A clean A1,O 0JS-tI- JOTO as in the streets is predicted.
 To a community that depends en- tireIy on it's agricultural produce, the plight of Cork must be obvious-wtth the unemployment situation very bad and industry virtually at a standst1u-
 But General Tom Ennis, who is just home from Cork, tells me that an manifest itself and that by Christmas he will have rounded up the RepubH- cans remaining there, who have crea- ted the condition.
 Tom Ennis was one of the great est generals in the Irish Repupblican army in the war against the Black and Tans. It was he who in charge of the shooting of the British spies in Mount street in December, 1S2O, which eliminated in that famous Bloody Sunday; who arranged the es- capes of prisoners from the hands or the Black and Tans and directed the operations at the DuTh1liS O1 L1le Suo tom House just before MT. Lloyd George made his peace overtures which resulted in the Anglo-1r1sh peace treaty being signed.
 He has seen, I suppose, more fight eng than any other fan in Ireland. Ennis, who is a remarkably shy and reticent young fellow, two years ago was a railroad porter on the North Wall docks at Dublin. But while he was doing his portering and luggage carrying he was also landing muni- tions for the I. R. A.
 The late General Collins had impn- cit confidence in him, and when the break came in the ranks of the I. R. A. Collins sent for him and said: From, will you stick by me? If not I do not see that there is any use in my carrying on." Ennis did stick by his old chief, and I saw him with bowed head marching behind his cof- fin on the day that he was buried.