Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-22 | Page 3 | England Considering Reinforcing Troops

I England Considering Reinforcing Troops LONDON No Non 22 By By the Associated Asso Asso- elated Press The The sending of additional additional additional addi addi- troops to Ireland is being seriously seriously seriously seri seri- considered it was stated at the war ot office ice this afternoon London was wai waiting ting anxiously and fearfully this morning for tor further news from Dublin following the reports of yesterdays horrors but up to early afternoon afternoon afternoon aft aft- only meager dispatches had been received Reports to the Irish office from Dublin Dublin Dublin Dub Dub- lin which were in hand by noon said three or four unidentified persons had been killed In that city late last night Several policemen had been killed in other parts of ot Ireland the tho Irish office announced A brief telephone at 8 o'clock this morning had reported the city at least temporarily quiet Then came a gay in the reports up to the noon hour but whether this indicated a censorship was not known Meager reports during the night stated that shooting was going on as asa asa asa a sequel to yesterdays yesterday's assassinations and the subsequent clash between the military and a crowd at Croke park The days day's disorders which added an appalling chapter to the tragedy that has been enacted in Ireland for the past several months began with the apparently deliberate shooting of fourteen fourteen fourteen four four- teen who for the most part were military officers During the afternoon Irish constabulary of black and fc t ns raided Croke Crole park where a football game was in progress and ana in the melee mel melee me me- l lee which resulted at least ten persons persons persons per per- sons were killed Communication with Ireland was seemingly last evening but the latest advices declared that fires had broken out in various places in that cIt city Shooting again began inthe inthe in inthe the streets just before midnight and it was asserted a number of ot persons had been killed Yesterdays Yesterday's murderous outbreak in f Dublin produced in this city a sensation sensation sensation sensa sensa- tion comparable to that which fol feY followed followed lowed the Easter rebellion of 1916 Military authorities in Dublin are said to hold the view that the murder of the fourteen officers will prove the final outburst of a nearly broken con con- I The fourteen military victims it is stated were securing evidence to be submitted before the which will try recently arrested Sinn Feiner This mornings morning's newspapers condemn with great severity seventy the system followed in Ireland Some demand sternest measures of repression and hint at the desirability of imposing martial law in Ireland P Tr e r The London Times for instance while vehemently denouncing the murders mur- mur ders of ot the officers expresses belief beliet that the strength of the Irish Irish- executive would be ten times greater in this emergency but for an army perilously undisciplined and a police force avowedly avowedly avowedly avow avow- edly beyond control which have defiled defiled de de- defiled de- de filed by heinous acts England's II tation Ministers l responsible for the administration admin admin- administration in Ireland were called to meet this morning to discuss the situation admin I