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Show IiiRED US i COME OUT US " HipEEPS Raid of Private Houses at Midnight Stirs English Major B . LYOJf. S. E. A. staii ri n--.ioinlf nt. ,ih,WP DUBLIN. Ireland, Nov. 13. Take a itfCJT cyplcnl night in Dublin As the cltl- TOS xens go to bod, the barracks spring Sfr'-y to Hfe. Lorries, tanks, and armored I ; searchlight can muster In fleets, lists ' "objectives" are dimributc-1 md. ; - fjf ' When the midnight curfew hnf. emp- 1 jjJJj tied the streets pitch dm k streetr, l the weird calvacade lasucs forth to the SSf attack J Think of raiding a private house ft dead of night In a tank In a iiSbH tank whose weird roar and rum- ,4wBm ble can ii heard miles awny! The SgH proceedure of the raid is in keep - V TH ing, ; hough the objectives are LkV held for Hie mos. part by wome'i hBjH ond terrified children. ' M A thunger of knocks; no time to tires 1 1- en for a woman alone) or the W door will crush In cn opening, in HI charge the soldiers with fixed bsc - kStli onets and fn full wurkit. No Warrant BBlv Hoown on entering, no apology on loavlng. If, as In nine casus out of ten, suspicions prove to be groundless and the raid a mlstalce. WOMEN Ol ii N LOCKED UP. I in man reccm Instances even wo-1 nun occupants have been locked up under guard while their property la sasr ransacked. bflUll This Is ,i true picture of .. I;rlllsh nHR military raid upuii an rrish home, but! GMct words acc not mine They are those of1 u9 -Major Ersklne Chllders an Kngi.ah-' HHL loan, who only recently left the Brit- 1 Haj lah army: Major Chllders, since the war has been living in Dublin. Not long BgO HJ the London Dally News asked Major : RHfl Chllders an englishman, to tell the) HHT truth as he saw lu L'ndcr his own j J nature he wrote the above and a lot; liy more. MHJ Another tiling that Majoi Chllders HHJ wrote, which has directed to himself I I the Intense hatred of the military and I constabulary! waa this: - ' "The military regime In Ireland i HHJ ' very natute, because It Is waged SHb by the wrong against the weak tor HH a bafe and selfish end the mill- HHJ lary don matlon of i people rlghl- J ly struggling to be free!" HH The big leaders of Sinn Pe(n bever think of sleeping in their own homes, IglnM bocauie to Jo so would !c to lavitc a jHJl raid. th.ir arrest ami deportation to an 1 English prison. "SLEEPING oi l' Pith l I I . . i . HHJ yo they enjoy "sleeping ou." pnvi- J leges thai arc unique. Jn ever) irisii HJHj Ry and town there arc scores 01 can - Hj9 Hies that keep an extra bed always HHJ ready for these leaders, who are con- J PHH stantly hunted by the pbllcei HB Curfew regulations are ruorh (rin-j kgfl tint lii sonic places than in others. Iji FM -Jork, tor instance, every citizen i u- j FB le oli the streets by 10 o'clock at HI ing.it, in Dublin tncy ate permitted Jl out until midnight HIGH PARLI 1M1 N 1 PLANS HHJ DUBLIN, Nov the ausocI- HJ ated PresSJ The Irish parliament at HH Belfast lor the six northeast counties HHJ expo tt-.i to be .set up immediately HjHJ once me home rule bill Is passed by HH1 llc Imperial gocrmnenl It was gPJflJjf polnttid out that this would si-n us '" example loi ...1 the rih'. cf ii. I ..I I, K ad liavo a stoodying effect bv b..o.-' Hr-c-- I'm. :,,ui i j,: , lMbII ' toe other ic counties couii have pre-'' lHSqm ' l6'' tl"' sme machinery of self-goT- , nifa ernmont as tJeiias. will have fir Its six t'LSJj counties. , 'I'B There Is some egltr-tlon for amend -meats to the financial terms of the jlJLjtt home rule bill. I'lstermen are op-j i' fain posed to handing over to any Irish h' llhB body the control of customs and ex- '1til cl8e- They do not want this privilege ;;jif tor themselves and re fleti-i mln-u th.il HkI 11 shall not be made available for the Jt3j rest of Inland, fearing that it inighl ! ,31 l "8-''j lo the 'letrlinent of Industry I ' l-'i the northern section of the country. TAXES HELD KX ESSIVE. j 'M Uclfast inon want more than the l.ooo 000 pounds to be granted for set-ttng set-ttng up Its proposed new parliament ThJ n Iso s:iy f,at the sum of IS.OoO-lnJaK IS.OoO-lnJaK u0 Pounds, which Ireland Is to coii- Lribute annually to the support of the tinpiro Is too high. This would be reduced re-duced by about S, 000.000 pounds irear by tfee annuities now payable to ii lJle Imperial treasury i Irish farm- 'tfJAl 'a w'ho have purchased then Jioldlngs with government advances. This sum In the future to be divided between the two Irish parliaments. One suggestion has been made thai Ireland's ontriuution rn the Imperial Hj funds .shall b- limited to the Irish In- 01 ie tSJC and super-tax which at pres-HiXS pres-HiXS I , ' "l ',nK'unl to 10,000.000 pounds or HT 11, "ou.ono pounds a jear Hf tXNK FEIN OBDURATE. Outside of Ulster, however none of M;r IIkkh jiolnts Is being dISCUSSed at al! ' ompl-tc separation md iiri Independent Independ-ent republic Is the sn,i Fein polli y while even the moderataes demand a government for ill Ireland on dominion domin-ion lines as coinpletti ly free in finance rs Canada. The government's bill I does nothing to meet this view and its oneatlon of t-A. separate parliaments In Ireland with SQua powers Is resented resent-ed by every section of the politicians in the south and west. |