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Show IHELAND VAST SLAUGHTER PEN, WRITER ftVERS ui Neither Side ' oljried to Be Fair to Other, He Asserts siarr Correspondent C. C, Lyon wav sent t Ireland to write Till tri th aixut conditions In thai land Of war. Herewith I- hK ftnl story. Tins Is not n series. Other Oth-er BtOrieg will follow probably thrcv times n week but each of tin Lyon dispatches will io oom plete In It v. If i;y c. c. lyov . l'. . staff Correspondent. DL'RLlN, Ireland. Oct. 23. Ireland today 1 a vast human slaughterhouse. In the south and west counties an infuriated populace Is killing the king's constables wholesale; and the1 constabulary, backed by all the power of a great army of occupation that is on a complete war footing. Is retaliating re-taliating with a slaughter of the popu- ! lace and acts of violence against private pri-vate property. In north Ireland, or l ister. Protes-tsmts Protes-tsmts have been killing Catholics and Catholics have been killing Protestants; Protest-ants; while the military at times, in nn attempt to maintain a semblance of neutrality, has killed some of both. OTHER PORKS OF WAR. Added to the widespread bloodshed are the burning of barracks, the looting loot-ing of gun and ammunition shops, the destruction of military supply trains and depots by the Irish people; and military and constabulary reprisals that have laid waste whole sections of cities and towns, destroyed crops, oreamerles and livestock. No man's life or property is safe in Ireland today. YH vr has caust d the present terrible terri-ble ntati of affairs? WHAT the truth about conditions? condi-tions? WHAT, It anything, can be done to restore peace and tranquility? I came to Ireland and have been touring the country In an effort to get at the truth. The truth la not easy to find. Roth the British military and' the Irish Sinn Eein have, it appears to my unbiased viewpoint, long since passed the stage where they are inclined in-clined to bo fair with each other. There are two distinct "problen -in Ireland today. One is the "Ir'Sb; Republic" and the other is the "V Question.'' Three millions nf Irishmen in south and ct Ireland want a republic tOI all Ireland, while more than one milium mil-ium Irishmen In north Ireland, or i later swear they'll die before thej n become part of a republic. ltd i Mi l( BJ 16E6 l M.Y. For doing the bidding of the British government In trying to suppress the 'Irish PajM lament" in Dublin In L914) the constabulary incurred the intense t haired of the Sinn l-Yiners. Clashes soon occurred In all sections! of the south and west of Ireland, which had elected the Sinn Kein members. mem-bers. This farfare ha-- never stopped. jt increases in violence daily, Th'- constables, finding the three million Irishmen In south and west Ireland practically a unit against them, called on London for help; and London's answer has been to recruit the constabulary up lo some u.ooo and lo put a regular British army of 70.00U on Ihe island to stand behind them and help them w )i r- necessary, j So today. Great Prit.iin 1 1 -ouie S3. 000 armed men In Ireland, with numerous nu-merous tanks, armored motor imv machine guns, airplanes al Other paraphernalia of war, all working to the end that the Irish movement for separation from the Empire and the establishment of an Irish republic H shall be crushed out |