Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-27 | Page 16 | Repression Fails to Stop Activities of Irish

t 6 i REPRESSION FAILS TO TOi i STOP ACTIVITIES I L OF IRISH i iI publican Republican J Re Attacks Coni Con- Con I I i i. i Almost Within Sound j of Dublin Castle I j y I j May 27 A A new feature of ot cJ tary tart administration In Dublin is isI I Ii success of the authorities in dis- dis disI I ring concealed arms and ammu- ammu nit on Most 1 active In this work has I. I b b h the F company of ot the auxiliaries t to the tha constabulary which as com coin regarding it are always r. r I r jis by general headquarters and V t. t not by the castle must be suppo supposed ed 1 7 to o be operating by military orders orden f After Atter months of ot almost fruitless 1 s searches arches important finds are being made Imade adE Search is not confined confine to the thea l y a poorer districts and the most fashionable lash fash- f l houses are exhaustively ex- ex i. i Suspicion is not directed j eX-j so I m uch against the owners of such buch houses as against their servants while i in 1 some cases it is probable that that w v I n neither ther masters nor servants were cognizant of or all that the premises con- con stained Ined IN STABLES l T r Dublin has numerous streets of i houses each aeh with a stable at the back h 1 relics of ot the time when the occupants kept carriages In many cases these stables are let to car drivers r or to anybody y g y ya a willing to r rent them and sev- sev e teral eral of ot these stables have ha been fount found foun I t tO contain supplies of ot revolvers rifles bombs Some Some houses in the suI suIi su- su I Ii land have long long- gardens to the end I lot of which the owners owes do not often otten penetrate pen pen- and in some of ot t these ese bombs have o been discovered Despite all this activity the official I Hsu summary mart a of outrages records c r each a l we week i k no d diminution tg in th the number be or character of the attacks made in the city which have grown in excess of I all alt Anticipations Apart from the bomb attacks on the i i military lorries which have wounded moro more Q n c civilians s than members members mem mem- rf bers e eo o of the crown rl n forces st t the audacity audacity rr of ot the republican army is manifested every every day In exploits each of ot them perhaps trifling but in combination showing careful organization and reckless boldness E M nAIL MAIL VII 7 j Postmen telegraph messengers and andt 4 Ii t dispatch riders are ae held up and their messages messages captured It is quite common common com com- mon roon for the average citizen to receive his letters after some days days' delay delav marl marked ed censored by the Irish republic lic and this this' Is often the case when letters containing valuables have been 1 l r registered f stored Nobody c can drive l a an automobile i w Without it a a permit but buta this interferes es f little with the activities of those against whom the tho regulation is aimed When the republicans want a motor they go and take it They give in inmost inmost inmost most cases a receipt for it and when It has served their purpose they return it it Even military lorries have been seized and used by the republican agents FOOD CAPTURED C. Food stores intended for the military t have been captured and destro destroyed ed and c even eyen the UIe laundry vans have llave been made madea a a- aprey prey e and n their contents b burned w with with- t f f in a a. few e miles of otO Dublin castle t The same story comes from many parts of ot i t e country and every province can cans s show numerous instances of the same if nd of activity as in Dublin Imprisonment Imprisonment Imprisonment apparently has been ineffectual t I r Besides more th than n 2000 persons in jail iatt under the tho sentences of the courts- courts martial there are interned in camps more than 2600 men held on suspicIon suspicion cion clon that they would be likely to commit com corn 0 mit offenses There seems to to be always al- al ways waya somebody b to take the place of the the h man 9 in jail