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Show j! fioiiosioiyp I 8. IRISH REBELS I Traffic By Hiqhway and Rail road Cut Off Bv Simultaneous Simul-taneous Attack H I Dl ui.iN. If. For hundrHK H9 ! f of mllM throughout houUi and aoutli- j V v.-cut County Cork .-ill the principal Hfl V roadu have hern rendered unfit for I use, irenche have been duir Itarri- Bfl mm I cadi's erected and bridge H according to a report Issued at Dub- Bfl I llnJCudle this evening. I rUAFPIC CLT OKI 9 ha.vttiv. onnt Cork, Ireland, H9 Keb. ij.- Bridges wof broken down or blown up and country byroad and fl lirldgca xpunnlng tho railways were H ! deatroyod throughout this district H I I: p Tuesday evening. Trenches have been H i(ft dug aloiiK th.. roodwayi and traffic H by road and mil a complete ly ut off. i : I I I K rO PAR t AMI SI Hl DUBLIN, Feb. 1C. Kanionn de V- Hfl (': lir.i. i biter to members of the Hll British rarll i ip. nt In behalf of "Tin H 3!jl elect.. i reprefeiitaitveii of Ireland." H charge! the lirltlsh troop with w.ig- H ,!j ft ing war on the Irish people "contrary HB :' " to all the rules of civilized War fan The communieatlon. it la explain-fl explain-fl "lest under plea of lg- HH V r norfjice you should disclaim responei- Hfl I I Mllty for what is being done hire In 1 I pour nam." The troops, he declared. Hjfl were guilty of torturing prisoner, 1 nn.lnntlng men and boys, murd.-rlng Hrl J u-omen. children and clergymen and outraging Irish women and girls, fl-;- sj ging and maltreating civilians, Issuing and enforcing "crawling and such like hiunllbillnjf an, i ilc.ra.Uiu; orders, taking men from their work and forc-lng forc-lng thorn to do military duty ir work I nt military duties like slave gangs; H 5 thi destruction of farmsteads and turm produce find killing and Maiming B ; ' of livestock. HOLDING OF I mi UIMS 1 "Although you have put your troops B I on aotlve service in Ireland," he .-ays, j "ulthotigh you have sought to JtiMlfy H I many vile deeds committed ns 'acts of war' and although ou are arm. d with the deadliest mOdStTI machinery J I of war nd prot ct. rl By every means Vi known to technical skill. yOi now seek H(1 1 to purchase Immunity from defensive Htff I action by our party by taking pos- ' j -. -Ion of all firearms, an orfense fur Ht; j I which nn Irishman may be nrr. Bted H ' j rxml shot and for Which one has been! i J v shot, nrid by carrying Irish citizens In I J your military expeditions against our 1 CB IKOl I Mi B ,;v "The ortlers to your troop are In I M 1 shoot these hostages, should the Unit LLB Til l'1 With Which they are traveling be at-; 1 j:, tacked. Already under the specious 9 ; J pretense that iln;, were trying to se? 'ji'ijlJ cjipe, many in. b prisoners bave been '1 , III bruially Murdered by your troops, , J 1 11" Nnw rSpresentatlve Irish cltlsens are B ' lii to c murdei inl similarly on Lhs . ground, pretended or true, that the 1 j party with which the are moving Is 3 j attacked 3 l "Thene things ar- done beoattse It Is g ji your will that 'they should be done; '1 tllii 'f 'ou willed oCherWwct they would mmm ' I ! 1 cease. II is you, not y ur troops, who J j aro primarily responsible." |