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Show I PRESS OF SINN f- FEIN'S ORGAN H CLOSED 001 Action Follows Raid on Estab lishment and Arrest of Its Owner SiSP UNIFORMED MEN BURN I HALL FOR REVENGE Newspaper Urges Sending of Trusted Yankee Reporters to Ireland Egf j DUBLIN. Nov. C. Numerous raids 1 were carried out In Dublin this morn- PJAVJ ing. The printing establishment of BHVf Patrick Mahon. where the Sinn Fein H ..man "Young Ireland' la published. Hb v , searched and documents removed. fcw M ,,f.r, u a-, .rr.-s'. 1 Hl .iirivintifd :he machinery and ordered Bf the plant The district hall "f Gorvah. coun- J ty Leitrlm. was burned lit dawn today; H by uniformed men. Yeslt -rd.-iv vacant, BVJ police barracks In Gorvah wore H burned. j )B 1 OR RBPOR1 ERS HPJPj LONDON. Nov 6 The Nen States-j .ijjLLn man suggests that n better plan than H inquiry ino conditions In Irelan I by a commission appointed In Wash-; ington would be for the AmerlcflUj H press to send over an army of Its most able and most trusted corr-spondents corr-spondents large enough cover evi rj county In Ireland The British gOV-rrnmont. gOV-rrnmont. the newspaper says woulr! ; then be faced with the alternative H either excluding them from Ireland thereby admitting everything or els. J take effective means 10 secure that they are not touched or threatened "for. insane as the svcrrnen; H will recognize the Impossibility of nl- lowing nv American cltlns to be HH1 bundled bv the Ttlnck and Tn-s i s i i ti!i:k apon BY C. LYON N R. . sen r orn p mlen DUBLIN. Ireland, Nov. 6 AY hen lfl Irishman complains to the world about fcflBl British militarj "oppression" It Jsouite n,- thing for thi military to rail h.m LlP"' a liar and assassin and to deny I1 So the Irish Bltm Fein poliVc.l or-fl or-fl ganlsation Just now Is try!nr to piroVa j thrlr rase bv usin- t It w-.r' Eng- I tlons in Ireland Only a few days ago number o. flWO well-known Englishmen n-'d---H a MM statement to their fellow-countrymen. I through the London Times, urging the , necessity of ihe Abandonment by th British government of its policy or! J repression in Ireland." Among those who signed the Btat?-I Btat?-I ll merit were Genera! Hubert Cough H I G AATel)s the nuthor. John Maacileltl and Philip Gibps one of Fnslanu's foremost Journalists. BYffl BM NOT Jl'fiTICl J To quote from tbiir statement: HH "Fey Englishmen have any ''Ira Of the lengths to which this policy bns been carried The Coercion Art' pvirr. the cllma?: of this policy Court mnr-tiaJ mnr-tiaJ Justice will become the rule It is provided that men may be kept Indef- Inlely In prison without trial. A court may sit in secret. "This Is not a system or justice, it is designed for the punishment of IHI political movement I fH "Every solution or the Irish question t rT- Bupposes a frlendlj reeling between ! England md Ireland and wi an Btin M ultinr hatred Thus, onlv by clvuu-i ng our police can w re it.- thi at- inosphere necessary to the successful I HH working of any solution of the Irish ilCJ'kj R ouestlon (OVsTAHLl.s HAVE POWER. HEsfl At present the constables or sol- 3.05 dirrs may raid the home of an Irlsh- H1JU man at night, drag him away to prison tWl or stand him up against u wall and siE shoot Mm without trial and the local coroner, nine times out of ten a Sinn 2J Felner. cannot hold an Inquest and re- ififKl turn a verdict of murder against the Bftid soldiers or constables. The L'.r.:iv- $8rlt stopped these toques' s be.ause the i,ifiSTti coroner verdicts rendered were gener- H ally political documents SEn After Lord Mayor MacCurtain of BasMi Cork had been taken f i om his home IUgB and shot to death some months ago H the Cork coroner listed Tremie; ;'P Lloyd George, along with the consta bles, as those RUilty of the murder Unlimited lstltude Is allowed the mllltarv and constabulary operating taJSjy In Ireland. Upwards of 2.0O0 raids aWr? have been made on Irish homes In a WH hunt for seditious literature, firearms and other evidences of disloyalty to HHl tho king. :'0 Irish newspapers were suppressed at one time for printing advertisements ad-vertisements for the Irish republic & s loan, some 6000 arrests of Sinn Fein jEii leaders and sympathizers have been Vff I 3 1 Sinn Fein numbers of the V 1 Irish Parliament" were In prison at Hj the time of their election, 37 more WPB members have either been imprisoned since their election or are now being hunted by the British authorities with View to Imprisoning them; some I i0 ' deportations of Irishmen; numerous fairs and other public gatherings suppressed: sup-pressed: and about 7 Irishmen shot Hti according to republican goernmeni Jm " figures. |