IRISH TRAGEDY.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17126, 22 April 1921, Page 7

IRISH TRAGEDY.

MIUTARY REPRISALS. BY MR iiOTD GEORGE. % i^*v^^!? S *A teo .« a (Australian 4nd X.Z. Cablfe Assoriiiton.) \r it i v April in. Mr Lloyd George, jfa a long letter in reply to the .bishops and other Churchmen who wrote condemning reprisals by the Crown Forces savsi "It is utterly untrue that there hfl9 been any authorisation or condonation of the policy, of meetihg hiurder bv unchecked violence. .Acts of indiscipline arc- now increasingly infrequent. The general record r:f patience and endurance displayed by the sorely tried police will commanil the admiration of posterity. Sinn F t .i n inaugurated a reign of teriOr and ruthless murder of its bpponents. "The present quarrel is not about e H,) m\° ile A - 1 ' hni nbout secession. The Gpvernnicht will never give way on this fundamental point. To abandon tho use of furte would be to surrender io violence, crime, and separation.. That I am not preparer! to do.'-'

(Several Anglican bishops and heads of Nonconformist Churches in England and Scotland, signed an appeal to the Pl-emiCr and Sir Hnniflr Greenwood. Chief Secretary for 11-clattd, protesting against indiscriminate reprisals in Ireland They Eaid they could not regard the outrages which had occasioned tho reprisals policy as ordinary, wantbu criminality, bub as the outcome of a sense of political grievance. They tu-god the Government to attempt to seclil-e si tnice arid adopt a policy of conciliation*]

(Received April 2lst, B.io p.m.) LONDON, April 21. As ah official Wpri.sa.l for the murder of a sergeant of the Royal Scots, two hotels and a shop Were demolished in Ehnis, County Clare. *H33 EBIGN OF POKOB. • ..LONDON, April 20. \ Poliee and have taken charge of the Hibernian Bank In ' Dnndnlk (Ohinty Louth), hi which it is alleged that the cheques stolen frbfn the rate collectors Were deposited. The manager, who refused to disclose the customers' affairs to the polio, was ai'restcd. .. Aimed men held up a train for two holli's, between Dublin atid Baliisddrire, BHgdi -Constables -Kelly and Hetherihjgtori wore taken from the train and shot dead. i ' Tlio Sinn Feltt Hylndew smashing campaign in London..has attained alarming proportions; Five hundred outrages were reported yesterday. The dam-: ogfe done miis into hiatiy thousands of pounds. One .hundred and slsity windows were broken at Stoke NeWittgtoni It IB believed that women are Concerned in the outrages, Which are carried out at night, and are" difficult to detect ' O'Sullhras, a pfomin«Sht Sinn Feiner 6f fl-alee, who served 6ft the Cdro-iiei-'s jtii'v -ivWeh efl{iuh ! &d intd' the death of Mr McCurtairi, I/ord 'Mayor, of Cork, was shot at Cork last night, He was a man of splendid physique.-He was called Upon to halt, but. ran, with the police ift pursuit, O'SulUvfin dashed into a house and tried to escape bv a Window of a back robin, but was Shot dead while dropping to the iground.

LONT>Or{, April 20; As a ffesiilt of the official enquiry into the Trim looting charges, it has been decided to arraign" eighteen catfets on charges of arson and. robbery. [A message received in February last stated:—i'nirty Insa auitiliaries, who •Were dismissed on charges of organised looting, have been reinstated, in order that they may be tried by Courtmartial.- Brigadier4ieneral Crozier, head of the Auxiliaries} and his adjutahti have resigned in connexion with the matter, apparently as a protest against the reihstatenieht of the hieh> but .Tudor, Who is Chief Of the lloyfll Irish Constabulary, ex* plains that the men should not have beeii dismissed without his and thai after their trial he forthwith instituted a Court of Enquiry, which Was still proceeding.. The accused tneii would hot be allowed to return to their oWh units iri any Circumstances. &ir Hfiihar Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ireland, stated that he had given mstnictibiis that the severest penalties Will be Oh any. persons found guilty.] . JSASf ON fiMIOEAIION.

LONDON, April 20= ffie Bail Eireann has issued a pro* elhrnation forbidding any citizen of. the Irish .Republic front emigrating, and orderinff shipping and emigration agents to refuse ,to accept passage monev. Those disobeying will be deemed guilty of a serious offence. AB0&B13H0F MANNIS. (femtef'a T«le|jiaaui.) ffteceived ApriLSlst 10.5p fihO LONDON, April 20. Archbishop Mannix; in h ftirther ih» : tervjew, denied that he stated that the Pope had-asked him to condemn alleged Sinn Fein outrages in Ireland, that he had'.fefused the Pope's request, and iihab WKfeh he informed theiPdpe of the real situation in Ireland' the Pope had said that the British pblicy in Ireland was shbekiiig.