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Show Ireland Conditions Described II TEACHER TELLS i I ABOUT FAMILY KNOTS American Commission Will ! Send Probers to England And Ireland DENNIS MORGAN OF THURLES IS WITNESS Describes "Shooting Up" of Town in Erin by Govern- j ment Constabulary 1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. "Only the direst necessity " can justify a resort re-sort to arms for the adjustment of disputes dis-putes In Ireland. Frederic C. Howe, chairman of the commission appointed by the committee of one hundred In- I Vestlgattng the Irish question, dcclar-1 led today at the opening of the committee's com-mittee's hearing. He added that the conditions In Ireland "have created and are 1 renting a widening rift in the friendly relations of English speoking people not only in America, but all over the world." .)1(. TO IICI I l "The committee plans to send a commission to Kngland and Ireland to muke an Inquiry into conditions In the (latter country," Mr. Howe explained. It will Investigate; the killings and disorders. Quite as important to the permanent adjustment of the dispute, it w ill Investigate the economic -conditions In Ireland, the extent to which the Irish have developed a self-contained economic and cultural life, as 1 well as tin extent to Which the Irish people have evolved their own agencies agen-cies of self-government during the last few years." SCHOOL TI. HER CAJ LBD. Dennis Morgan, of Thurles. Ireland, was the first Witness tailed, He said he was a college teacher In Thurlcs and that he had been elected chalr- Iman of the town council as the labor candidate winning over Sinn Fein and Independent candidates. The Witness described what he termed the shooting up of tho town of Thurlcs by government constabulary. constabu-lary. He testified that after a con- jstable had been shot lost January JO. tho constabulary In reprisal made a .midnight raid upon homes and stores of townsmen prominent in the Irish I independence movement. Ten houses and stores were riddled with bullets and hand grenades, he said. DODGING BULLETS, No rioting preceded the shooting, ho continued, and he was told that the constabulary w:ls "practically act-1 Ing under orders. ' The witness described de-scribed how he and his family lay huddled hud-dled on a stone floor all night lo escape es-cape the bullets living through his Windows und doors. There were no religious differences between the Thurles Inhabitants. Mi Morgan said, and the town was law-abiding. law-abiding. The witness testified that he was arrested ar-rested by a squad of eight constabulary constabu-lary when he left his home January 30 to attend an organization meeting of the town council He sold he usk-ed usk-ed with what offense ho wns charged and the constabulary replied. "No charge. Just government orders." or-ders." 00 |