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Show g. oo ;SAYS DUBLIN RESEMBLES SHELL-TORN FRENCH CITY iiiv International News Service) CHICAGO, Sept i.. The Dublin of old Is no more; the elty now resembles more than anything a shell-torn city of France, and all of Ireland Is a battlefield. bat-tlefield. Patrick .1. Dee. who has been on the; "Emerald Isle" since Mav 81, luings, this Information back to Chicago. Mr Lee visited all the disturbed sections! Of Ireland and mourns the loss of ten l"linils, (lodging bullets." 'Ireland is worse now than Bel-1 gnim was un,dcr Ocrman i ule." said Lee at his home here. There are very few trains running The people refuse re-fuse to rlansport munitions, soldiers and supplies. 'British motor trucks, heavily armored, ar-mored, are blocked at every turn by h'UgtS trees thrown across roads." Militarists, Bee said, have recently made ( a practice to shoot up" i town as soon as they enter It " About 70 per cent of the police barracks," Lee continued, "have been turned, and the police are resigning rapidly. Thej rc replaced by re-.entl re-.entl discharged British soldiers." Due tu a remarkable espionage sys-em. sys-em. Lee said, the Sin Fein Is able" In aiost cases to anticipate UritiSfl ran",, r,e people arc so united In their desired tof ight for self-determination that the militarists have been unable to get a single COnViclon on any recent re-cent killings. Extremely high prices prevail everywhere. Land, which in pre-war days sold at fifty pounds. Is now bringing nearly 200." Americans. Lee concluded, are received re-ceived everywhere with open arms. |