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Show THE HORRORS OF THE IRISH REVOLT Ireland continues to be the scene of civil strife, with mob rule nnd assassi nation. The Sinn Feiners are retaliating on Jthe Black and Tans, as the imported 'police are known Assassination and 'reprisals are proceeding with great regularity, and all of Ireland Is In an 'uproar Theer are two ways to restore peace One is to accede to the Irish demand for self government or to overwhelm the country with troops The Black and TanH are a direct in vitatlon to ihe people to resent the presence of men In uniform who are (thomselvea disrespectors of the law and not of a very high order of man hood. At the beginning of the trouble, trou-ble, the Black and Tan committed nianv OQtrages more terrible than were perpetrated by the Sinn F iners At many plate:, thOy invaded homes and lvt down men in the presence of I hoi r little children. At one home .they placed ihe father of a large family against ihe wall of his home and. with the children screaming In horror, drove their bayonets through the body. The reign of lawlessness has taken possossion of the larger part of the population and the flames of civil war are sweeping over the country. ne thing Is quite certain. The Black and Tans should be removed and. if the British government is resolved re-solved en CFUlblng Ihe Spirit of independence, inde-pendence, then a force sufficiently formidable for-midable to overawe should be sent across the Irish sea. oo |