Show irisia REIGN OF TERROR the mob Is master thelah laid laic by W U telegraph to iho LONDON londot june the worlds special the number of outrages in ireland ig is increasing the figures stand as follows january february march UG april may and for the first week in ill juno june ending inato tonight to night 99 attacks on oil prop property etly attempted murder cattle stealing aar and all other of fences directly traceable to agrarianism tho the chief secretary is 13 said to bo be alarmed at tit the attitude of the police largo large numbers of them are sending in their resignations and hundreds of older officers eay say that the prospect of getting their retiring allowance f alone glonek beeps them from throw throwing i ng up the force under tho the stringent instructions issued by the executive the men are almost afraid to defend their own lives they dare not fire directly into the mob except so the instructions run on oil receiving the command from a magistrate in attendance who not give such an order until every other means of despe dispersing n in the mobs has been ex exhausted bausted ang and unless the command is in most imminent danger As ye yet no such imminent danger has arisen arisen in the opinion of the magistrates although over mat sub constables have been placed hors de combat by wounds from stones and s slicks tick s and eleven have been killed outright or have succumbed to the A wounds received at the hands of the rioters E every very fourth man in the force has suffered red more or less from stone cuts and bruises not counted as wounds the leaguers employ watchers whenever a collision occurs i i e men who stand aloof from tile scrimmage and watch the movements of the constabulary so as to be ready in case a rioter should be killed to make out a case against them be before fore the coroners jury any policeman who makes himself conspicuous in in any icelee is thenceforth a marked man if disturbances tur bances continue ono one of two things is certain the police will cither either resign by the hundreds or break loose and wreak terrible vengeance on oil the mobs the last telegram stated that the police barrack barracks had been attacked and assistance urgently asked for another body of troops with artillery if required will leave cork in the morning for skibbereen ereen |