Show TO i FR FOR I II I RELIEF I Use Own Statements to I Prove Case Against I England I ID I'D D B c c. c LYON JY N. 1 li H. E A. A Stuff Staff Correspondent DUBININ Ireland Nov ov 8 When S.-When When an Irishman complains to the world ord about about British military oppression it is quite the thing for the tIle military to call cal him a liar lar and assassin and to I I I i I I I I deny it I I So the Irish Sinn Fein political or organization or- or r- r just now is trying to prove I their case by using the words of or Eng En Englishmen n who have investigated d condl 1 I in Ireland Treland tons Only a few days ago a a a number o owell of well wel known Englishmen addressed a a statement to their fellow countrymen through the London TimOR Times s urging the necessity of tile the abandonment hy by tJ tIle the el British government of its policy y of repression in Ireland Among those who signed the statement statement statement state state- ment v. v were yere ere General Genral Hubert Gough H. H G. G r Wells ls the author John Masefield and Philip Gibbs on of England's foremost foremost foremost fore fore- most journalists I SYSTEM NOT JUSTICE CHARGE I To quote from their statement Few Englishmen h have la a any idea of i iI the lengths J to which h c this policy I cah has I been carried carried The coercion act marks marls the climax of this policy I justice will wil become the rule HIs It H Itis Itis is provided provide that men may be kept In Indefinite In- In definite yin trial A Acou Acourt Acourt cou court cout t may sit si in secret This is not a system of justice It Itis Itis I is designed for the p of a apolitical apolitical political movement Every solution of he Irish question question queston ques ques- tion ton presupposes a friendly f fueling between England and Ireland and a we weare weare weare are stimulating hatred Thus only by changing changing our policy poley can we create I the tile atmosphere necessary to the successful suc sue working of any solution of the Irish question queston I I I I COXS' COXS CONSTABLES Ll S IA E POWEll rOWEl At pr present sent the constables or soldiers may raid of ot an Irishman at night drag him away to prison or stand him u a wall wal and shoot him without trial and the local coroner coroner coro coro- ner ncr nine times out of ot ten a Sinn SinnI Feiner cannot hold an and I return a verdict of murder against the soldiers or constables The British stopped these I inquests b because the i I coroner g v verdicts ts rendered d were generally gener gener- ally aly political documents After Lord Mayor Mayol MacCurtain of Cork k had beep been e taken takei e from o his h homo home I sN l sh am and shot t to death some months o s stoe ago the toe Cork coroner listed Premier Llo Lloyd loyd d dGeorge George along with the constables as asI I those el guilty ty la latitude of tl the nl murder I Je allowed the and constabulary operating in Treland Ireland Upwards of raids havI have hav been heen made on Irish homes homps in a hunt for seditious literature firearms and I other evidences of or disloyalty to the tha twenty Irish newspapers were I suppressed at one time for printing I advertisements for the Irish republic I I loan some same arrests of Sinn Fein FeinI leaders and ad have been made thirty-one thirty SInn Fei Fein members I of ot the Irish parliament parlament were in prison at the time of their election thirty seven n more members have either been imprisoned since pince ince their election electon I or are now being hunted by the British Bri- Bri lInt Brit ish lab authorities with wih a view to imprisoning I offing them theP some 2500 deportations of Irishmen numerous fairs and anti other public about If seventy five gatherings f We 1 Irishmen suppressed s shot ot and ac according no- no cording ures to republican government f fig |