Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-28 | Page 3 | British to Retain "Black and Tans"

BRITISH TO RETAIN BLACK AND TANS DUBLIN DUPLIN May 28 The The statement Is made In in the Independent that Viscount formerly Lord Edmund Talbot Talbot Tal- Tal bot the new viceroy for Ireland ob obtained obtained ob- ob tamed from the cabinet as a condition of ot his acceptance of ot the viceroyalty an anI undertaking that the inception of his I regime regine would be marked by the withdrawal withdrawal with with- wal dr of the he auxiliary police poll e called I In Ireland the Black and Tans TansIn In official quarters in Dublin this statement Is not confirmed But it Is generally taken to point I to some ni fa change in the control ol of the e auxiliary force the force is composed of men who are supposed to be cadets for forthe forthe forthe the royal Irish constabulary awaiting awaiting await await- ing appointment as district Inspectors and is therefore technically part of the police But it is not controlled by the heads of ot the royal Irish constabulary and has its own commander in chief in General Tudor It is composed exclusively of ot of ex I who served in the tho war and numbers about l 1000 1500 OO men It is is Of eX not notI believed here that In iq present conditions conditions condi condi- vit t Jed I it I is likely r el to be Si disbanded a