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Show I OGBENITE BACH I FROM 1RELAHQ M. J. Clifford Tells of Exciting; Experience With English Police Even Americans are not safe from Indignities. In Ireland at present, ac-cordlnK ac-cordlnK to Mlchnol J. Clifford. -'41 Qulney avenue, who returned Friday morning, after having spent three J months in Cnland :tnd Irelaa'. BH "For five weeks I was i.i I.im- riek H and County Claire. Ireland Mr. CUf- Bj ford said, "and during n;ii time I BftBJ r!iv and ubmltted to Indignities that mfldo my American blood boll' BBBJ ' Ireland Is Apparently policed at present by renegades, and the on- BftBJ .stabularv BCems t be permitted to do BBBi t t ERED WITH RI1 LES BBBJ "On one occasion, my brother Jack. and I were returning to our home It BBBj was not later than 9 o'clock As we pnsaed the Monster Bank of Ireland a motor lorry drove to the curb. Seen BABl armed policemen accrued us and forc- BftBJ ed us to throw up our hands, all sev-en sev-en eoverlnK us with rifles. BflBi SP'What the are you two doing out at this lime Of night," the leader advanced and demanded. "Going home." we replied. At that Mr. CI If -forel states. the b-nder nd'.ai. ml knocked the pipe which I was smok- B Ing from my mouth." BBSl "We were then searched and Ame- rlcan credentials. Ineludlnsr my pass- B port were taken trom me The of-fjcer of-fjcer had little or no reaper' for my BBsS papers and returned them only after I had refused to move without th m "My pipe, which was 1 y I n k on the sldc- BBBJ -valk, was picked up and appropriated BBBJ b1 one of the soldiers." BBBJ Because of the lack of principle or i he slighteyt spark of regard for a fel-low fel-low belnflr. 1 cannot help but believe that only the scum of the Er.irllsh BBBJ jails are at present enK-fi' d as iollce- BBBa' men In PROPERTY DESTROI : ID. BJ "Destruction of property and iiulis- crlmlnute shootins show windows and other objects Is sight J which I witnessed In Limerick, BBBJ -'"Upon one occasion. I witnessed a group of soldiers surround a magnlfl-jent magnlfl-jent street clock in front of "Tales. ' I cannot recall the name nf the street BBBJ where the clock was located. The scn-dlcrs. scn-dlcrs. facia? thr BBBJ clock which, like the Lewis Jewelry BBBJ company c lock has four faces, fired scores of Indicts Into the clock and BBBJ concluded their amus-mnt by shoot- BBBj ing through ?hoi windows, as they BBBJ made their wa up the s'f. et r.-.tch BBBJ soldiers are not stationed In Ireland. BBBJ because they tak sides with the pco- BBJ "Motoring in England Is anything BBBJ hut a pleasure. One can travel for BBBJ ten miles on some occasions before the BBBJ car Is stopped and searched If nothing noth-ing of a compromising nature is found, the car Is allowed to progress to be I stopped by other puards statl 1 far- BBBj ther along the roaa. BBBJ .."Much regarding the Sinn Fein has BBBJ been written, both for and against BBBJ this organization, but from my point BBBJ of view, they represent an invisible II form of government of some strength. BBBJ "Ireland, with the exception of the BBBJ police, Is free from English rule and BJ the majority of Irish courts are con-BBBJ con-BBBJ duced by the Sinn Felncrs. While BBBJ no jail sentences are meted out, the ends of Justice are mel und i" event BBBJ of thievery of property, restitution BBBJ to the owner of trie property Is made I n some form or other ir the lhic-t Is apprehended "England, however. has forbidden the teaching of riahj in a number of Si hools. "The Irish are striving foi- Colonial government and their aim will be accomplished ac-complished before long:" Mr Clifford is an employe of the Southern Pacific company In this city. Mr. Clifford said that after visiting! hoth Ireland and England, that Utah looked good to hln: "The United States should not interfere in-terfere and the only waj for this country coun-try to help Is to extend sympathy to the Irish," he . aid. oo |