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Show uuu FLAMES SWEEPING OVER LIVERPOOL Fires are burning in Liverpool and the charge Is made that the flame-are flame-are the work of Sinn Felners. This orgy of murder and property destruction should stop. Those in authority au-thority who have been making reprisals repris-als should be halted; Sinn Kelners. in their embittered state of mind should be saved from themselves. The horrors of the civil fighting can do nothing more than to make the two contending forces uncompromising and lead to gTcaier outrages, i Thousands of innocent people are j being Involved- The burning of the warehouses at Liverpool will brim, monetary loss to many individuals who vere not parties to the reign of ter ror in Ireland, and a great multitude jot poor workingmcn will be thrown ou' i of eihploymenl and hungry children may be among ihe afflicted. What is to be gained by a campaign which istrikes at noucombatants and only serves to close the minds of those ap-I ap-I pealed to? If the Sinn Feiners were sufficiently sufficient-ly powerful to gain control of their own affairs, they might expect to achieve i heir ondr. hv force. But they are comparatively weak, are in greai part disarmed and wholly incapable of successfully battling against the rapid-fire rapid-fire guns of those who are resolved to bring them to their knees All people differing radically from those who dominate them, rhould have self-determination, but there is a reasonable rea-sonable and also an unreasonable method of demanding self-government j There is a possible outlet and an im-j im-j possible wa i There is o prospect that the British jwlll (Ire of this constant . clash apd have done with It by divorcing Ireland. but the indications are the effect will J be quite to' the contrary and that the I British will become harden :d and. with firm determination to tight it out. in fllci a hatred most intense |