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Show MURDLR OF OFFICERS 1 FOLLOWED B!' FIRING I OH FOOTBALL CROWD I Military' Officers Think Assassinations Are Final Outbursts of Broken Sinn Fein Conspiracy; Times Says Army in Erin Ij Undisciplined; Government Discusses Sending Moro Troops to Ireland; London Fearfully Awaits Additional News From Seat of Unrest. LONDON, Nov 11. The sending of additional troops to lrclaml its bc'iiif seriously considered, it was stated at the war office this afternoon. Official announcement was made this afternoon that the assassi-nations assassi-nations in Dublin yesterday totalled fourteen, while six persons, in-eluding in-eluding Sino Peiners, weri injured during thi attacks Pour prison- I ers were taken. These figures do not include the casualties at Croke Park. LONDON, No 22 -A violent scene occurred io the- house "t1 I commons this afternoon during the period of questions regarding the situation in Ireland Joseph Devlin. Nationalist, and a unionise iieviiher came to ld'iws The sitting was suspended. IH . I Thn nlteie.ntlr.ri nroe after Premier Lloyd George had addressed the house irlef!v nn the subject belnR followed Mr. Ie lln Th premier, when h iffl iro Bald he shared the horror all H fell at the n.ld blooded murder of un- H nmcd British officers. The govern-ment. govern-ment. continued Mr. Lloyd George, fpH had resolved t- supresa murder and i onsplracy in Ireland It was realized pH by aU that .to suppress such carefully organised, highly subsidized plots, would take time, but the government wus convinced that despite the recent EpH happenings, the Irish authorities were ffH succeeding in breaking up the gangs of assassin. TROUBLE BREWS The premier said, however, that pH shb i!d exvierlence show that the pow-ers pow-ers possessed by the Irish government h.ol proved Insufficient for that pur-pose, pur-pose, the government would have no hesitation in asking the parliament for such further authorities as might be pH necessary to achieve that end. Mr. Devlin arose and asked why it ppfl was that when .Sir Ha mar Greenwood he chief secretary for Ireland, was pH asked a ipjestion he recited the horn-hie horn-hie occurrences which had happened Nesierday and yet said nothing about the appearance of a military force at ppfl the football match. He was Interrupt-ed Interrupt-ed with loud cries of "alt down." ni l l si s TO SIT DOWN Mr. Devlin retorted: I shan't sit down." and continued pH "Why has the house not been made acquainted with a rectal of theso pH vents, of the entry of the military Into the football field and the dlscrlm- Inate shooting of ten people?" Then were loud cries of"Oh:" from pH the house at this. Sir Mamnr replied empaticaily 1 that he has been asked nothing about that Question, but that he was pre-pared pre-pared to answer. Mr. Devlin again arose, .unld angry cries of "sit down!" and was endeavor- ppfl ing to speak when a member below him endeavored to puil him down. Mr. H. Devlin lunged forward fiercely In an pH hi hold of th'' I member, and the latter, rising to his pffl feet, the tvo closed With each Other. LOSES ill OAT Qther members came forward to pH separate the pair, but notwithstanding these efforts the two men struggled forward Mr. Devlin, losing his coat In the crush but still holding his own. I "This is English courage and Eng-jllsh Eng-jllsh chivalry, to attack one man in six jM hundred!' fB After a minute or two the pair were pl I forced into seats by friends, and the fpB (speaker suspended the sitting OPPONENT IPOl (,. i s I pon resumption of the session, Ma- tf Jor John Molson. Coalltlon-L'nlonist member for the Ciainsborough division jpH of Lincolnshire, who was Mr. Devlin's opponent, arose and apologized to Mr. Devlin, to the speaker and to the house, saying he was afraid he had allowed himself to be provoked and bad forgotten himself. Mr. Devlin aid pted the apology and assured Major Molson that In this or any other matter that affected him In the hOUSS he had no personal feeling. sir Hamar said: "The authorities have reason to be-llevc- that Sinn Fein gunmen came to 'Dublin Sunday under the guise of at-I at-I tending the football match in order to carry out the murders. Consequently. i mixed force surrounded the grounds. Thia force Was fired On and in firing hack kilh d tell and wounded others." lit SHI l TO l'l M H Sir Hamar also gave details of th - finding of revolvers ami the crushing tq death of a man and woman, which latter he regretted. As to present conditions Dublin, ho -tated In h id received at 1 o'clock a telegraui Buying everything was appar- pH SUtl) normal in that city, no fresh ills-turbiinces ills-turbiinces having tlevcloped After Mr Devlin had concluded hid JfH Statement there was a passage at arms between Jeremiah MacVeasjh, Nation-ullSt Nation-ullSt member for South Dawn, and Sir Bdward Carson, the Clster leader, dm -ing which Sir Kdward called the N.t-tlonallst N.t-tlonallst member a "liar" for saying Sir Kdward 'hail begun the use of , rUles" In Ireland. Mr Bonar Law. (the government leader, brought about I peace among tho members at this pH point by announcing that Wednesday will be given over for s discission f the Irish question in the house of com- PliOT 1 l ENDS i sir Hamar Greenwood, chief More-Itarv More-Itarv for Ireland, declared In the bouse of commons today that plans of "paid .issi.--.ln-.' discovered recently, includ e,i destruction Of life and property in England as well as in Ireland. Tliree of the assassins of ihe officer In Dublin wore captured red handed With their arms, ll was announced In fl I (t onllmiiHl on Page Two.) MURDER OF OFFICERS FOLLOWED BV FI1 ON FOOTBALL CROWD . (Continued from Page One.) th house of commons tins afternoon by Hlr ILumar Greenwood, the chief secretary for Ireland One of the assassin-; hx.d been wound, a li.- .old. -J i,ii;rri:vT KILLKD MORRISTOWN. N J., Nov. 22. J l leutenant Peter A Am, of this city. was klllod during vest, rday's rioiing In ; Dublin, according to a cal)le message ; received here today by ht brother, J. : .1 Ames. A previous message had announced an-nounced his engagement to Miss Mllll- cent Ewlng. daughter of the late : Major and Lady Alexander Ewlng of London. IH'KMN. Nov. 22 (By the Associated Associ-ated Press Twenty-six persons are dead and seventy others are lying in hospitals as a result of Sunday" orgy ot assassinations and tho wholesale shooting in Croke park, where soldiers fired on the crowd which gathered to , witness a football game between the Dublin and Tlpperary tcrams. Dublin's apprehensions that reprls-i reprls-i ais would follow lust night proved un-I un-I founded and it Is bell.uod that govern-j govern-j ment reports of three or four killings I in the city after midnight were due to their confusion with outrages near Dublin. Aside from military activities and searching. Including the Mansion! house. It appeared the yesterday's outbreak, out-break, following the outlines of other, Irish disturbances, was not being sus-l J tained. The shooting in Croke park is do-, fended by the authorities on thoj ground that they had reason to believe! that men from tho providence that participated In yesterday's murders were present at the football match-PliAXNJBD match-PliAXNJBD TO d UIC1 Tho design of the military, It was Said, was to prevent their exit and SeaTCh each Individual as he passed out through the turnHtllcs Tho plan failed because of the gen-era gen-era stampede, people scaling the walls of tho park and muny going into the houses across the road, from which they wero dragged by the military Thi Impn -.--io prevailing last night that tho park shooting was B reprisal Was Controverted by an official statement state-ment that it was an attempt to round up tho morning murrlers. No trains were running and no motoring mo-toring was allowed tnd.ij In tho bellel that the men wanted were still In th--1 1 il an 1 thai their capture nughi be effected by an exhaustive iearcli LONDON is PEAR t 1 LONDON. Nov. 22. London was waiting anxiously and fearfully this morning for further news from Dublin following the reports of yesterday's horrors, but up 10 early afternoon only 1 meager dispatches had boon received. J u Reports to the Irish offico from I Dublin which were In hand by noon. ISSld three or four unidentified persons Ihnd been killed In that city late last night Ssveral policemen liad been' ,kllled In Ireland, the Irish ann office i reported A brief telephone message at elgh' 1 o'clock this morning had reported the city at least temporarily quiet. Then I came a gap In the reports, up to noon' hour, but vhether this Indicated aj (censorship waf not known SHUOTlMi l.OKs (, Murder stalked through the gtrOi of Dublin yesterday and at nightfall the meager reports received here Indicated Indi-cated that at least 26 persons had bee, killed and upwards of 100 more or: less seriously wounded The day's dls- orders. which adder! appalling j chapter to the tragedy that has been J 'enacted in Ireland for the past Several 'months, began with the apparently lellberate shooting of fourteen men who for ihe most part were military officers. During the afternoon Irish I constabulary, or ' black and tans " 'raided Crooko park where .1 football game was In progress and in the molee. which resulted ut len.t ten pel ions were killcl 1 IRKS UIlKMv Oi l' Communication . with Ireland was seemingly interrupted last evening but' the latest advices declared that flreal had broken out in various places In I I that city. Shooting again began in. the streets just before mldnlghl and1 it was asserted u number of persons bad been killed. -. murdi coos out! i e . ,. in Dublin produced in this city a sensation sensa-tion comparable to that which followed follow-ed the Easter rebellion of 1916. Military authorities In Dublin are to hold the view ihit the murder of the fourteen army officers Will prove the final outburst of a nearly broken conspiracy. l oi RT1 I N VICTIMS The fourteen military Victims, it la stated were securing evidence to be Submitted before the court martial which will try recently arrested Sinn i Ylners. This morning's newspapers condemn With great severity the system followed follow-ed In Ireland. Some demand sternest measures of repression and hint ut the desirability of Imposing martial law in Irelanu The London Times, for Instance, while vehemently denouncing the murders of the officers, expresses belief that the strength of tho Irih sxei utive would be ten times greater In this emergency, but -for 'an army perilously undisciplined and a police force avowedly beyond control, which hn.- defiled by heinous acts England's Eng-land's reputation." Ministers responsible for tho administration admin-istration in Ireland were called to meet this morning to discuss Ihe situation. I'Mtl I Mi: I TO U l Sir Hamar Greenwood, the chief secretary sec-retary for Ireland, was In conference during th morning with members of the cabinet In preparation for the expected ex-pected bringing up In parliament today of yesterday's Irish happenings. A dispatch to the Press association from Dublin early this afternoon plac-eu plac-eu the number of dead resulting from the Crooks park shooting at twelve. The lord mayor of liublln applied for police protection lust evening, it was .ated officially today The viceroy vice-roy gave permission for the guard being be-ing ncnt. but no regular military or polios being available, a part of "black and tans'' was sent to guard the lord mayor. PRIEST'S BODY POl Sit, GALWAY, Ireland, Nov. 21. The body of Father Griffin. curate of Rushy park, who disappeared several ii 10, was found yesterday In a I bog by the roadside near Durnu, four miles from Qelway, Volunteers had been searching for the missing man since he was kldni PPed by three un known persons lest Sunday. A part;, of countr h'ds 1.1 ! tl tragic dls !cover. The body was brought to Ga! v. . .. this morning Intense excltemei. prevails. Tho lads observed in th bog what appeared to hav been a recent up heaval They began probing into th mound with sticks and finally uncovered uncov-ered the skirts and overcoat of the priest Without proceeding further they sent for priests in Galway and when they armed. working under their direction by moonlight. unearthed un-earthed the body of the missing curate , A bullet wound In the head of the priest was evidence of the cause of his death. j Cottagers In this bleak and sparsely Inhabited part of the countryside tell 01 the niNsterious arrival at midnight j ) isl Sunday, following the kidnapping of Father Griffin, of a lorry load or mi D. The lorry halted near the spot I where the body was found and the lights wete extinguished. In about! twenty minutes the lamps were re-1 lighted and the party drove away 1 ON ST Mtl.I SHOT. NEWRY. Ireland. Nov 22. Head Constable Kearney was shot and probably prob-ably mortally wounded here lust eve niiig by unknov.11 persons Subsr- ;quently, the house of former Sergeant Cm-run. of the constabulary, was si t on fire. |