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Show OFFICER SHOT US HE MOTORS; MORE REPRISALS Unofficial Attempts Underway to Solve Irish Question Reported I NENAGH, County Tipper.xiy. lre- land. Nov. 3. Lieutenant Hamilton j was shot dead while motorcycling near I here lasi evening. Two men who were I arrested on suspicion of having killed j him attempted to escape and were shot dead. f Reprisals followed the officer's i death. Licensed premises and a print-; Ing office were destroyed by fire and la creamery was blown up with bombs ami iln machinery smashed Th,. inhabitants of Nehagh fled into j the surrounding country. The noise of rlrlng and tin- plosions wero heard. throughout the night I I ' VI I IX Hi ! -.1 LONDON, Nov. 4 - In the house of "inrnons today T. P. i t'Connor raised a debate by .attacking what he de-' de-' ril" i :,- the authorities poll, of l rightfulness In Ireland, which, he de-j de-j flared was adding new battalions to the Sinn Fein army and besmirching j England's good name. Joseph Devlin, Belfast, and other members strongly denounced the reprisals re-prisals In Ireland. Sir llaniar Greenwood, chief secretary secre-tary for Ireland, replying gave statls-Itics statls-Itics showing that the military and police po-lice were not faltering In their endeavors endeav-ors to maintain th strictest desclpllne. I Nine constables were under arrest, two I of them charged with murder. General Sir Nevil MacReady, commander of the forces, had Inquired into every charge against the troops and dlsclp-llnar dlsclp-llnar Lotion had been taken In ten leases. Trials hsd been ordered In ; other ease". PLAN Ol Si l rU Ml x i LONDON, Nov. 3. Two interesting, nlrlmiigh unofficial, attempts are being n n!e to solve the Irish question. It I developed loda. The first of these Is Ian effort by Influential political quar-I quar-I terB to indm e the gov ernment to com-, com-, munlcate with the Sinn l-'eln membeia ui parliameii; in order to try to reach 'a practical agreement and prevent the turn of Ireland- The second is that three oshtion m uibers of parliament will formally I propose a plan for withdrawing the milltnr) In Ireland to strategic centers and allowing the local authorities to take the responsibility for the preservation preser-vation of law and order with the even-tual even-tual view of negotiating a political set-Itlement set-Itlement of the problem. |