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Show I ENGLISH PAPERS CONDEMN POLICE A deep and abiding smse of .iust ic is to be found among Englishmen English-men whenever they arc called on to pass judgment even on their 6Vi n offenses againsl people not of the-ir blood, and an evidence of this ftirnss of public opinion in to be found in fhe editorial of the Manchester Man-chester Guardian, condemning the snek of Babriepnn, which the paper describes as "Ireland s Louvain. " The Guardian, recognized as one of the most ably edited paper? in England, says . The police reprisals in Bnlbrigpran were the worst yet in Ireland Ire-land in brutalit.v. wantonness and destructiveness by the uniformed forces of the crown. The story is comparable only with the stor.v of the Belgian village Louvain. Two men were dragged from their homes by the police, bayoiieted and clubbed in an effort to extract information and then killed in cold blood in the stnvt If the Eng lish people are to really understand the things done in Ireland in the name of the British government and allowed to go on unchecked b the eahinet, we must po into the history of last night's, happenings in detail. " Xhe Giiardian followed with a two-column story of the incident. Inspector Burke and his brother, a sergeant, were in civilian clothes, celebrating the promotion of the inspector The celebration lasted for five hours and took place in a saloon. The shooting occurred in thf doorway of the saloon. "Whether it was from ambush or in a fight is not clear When the police at Burke's station close by heard of the incident, they mshed over, fifty stroner. in motor trucks, and started the affray af-fray by the killing of two men mentioned by the (iunrdian and then went about with torch and bombs, returning last nigh.1 to complete th work. They were sustained m their reprisal by looted Liquor, Many were drink maddened as thev went about the work of destruction. destruc-tion. The Evening News said that "no incident in the unhappy history of Ireland exceeds m horror the sack of Bsibriggan." |