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Show IPOLllPTURE SINN FEflSLlD Sir Horace Plunkett, at Mew York, Condemns Home Rule Bill lit BL1N. Dec. SO. Partie of military mili-tary and police, setting out In boats, surrounded the main island of the Aran group, at the entrance to Gnlway bay early Sunday morning to carry out :i search. Two men were shot in attempting at-tempting ti escape, three oih-rs were wound. -d .m. I n rl"ners were lul en. according lo official message to-j today. No reference was made to any' Casualties to the crown forces. It is undexrtood that Inishman Island.; which presumably is the one surround - d. was U-. d l tin- Sinn r-Vlners for prisoners taken In Golway, RKSKXT C IK Itni DECREE CORK, Dec 20. The decree authorized auth-orized by MOnsighor Daniel Cohalan, blshou of fork, cx-communlcatlng an;. uiie imi ik uin in i.j. cades of cri n forces in his diocese was read at each mass In the churches of the Cork diocese Sunday, in St. Pin I liar's south . hurch .1 majority of the congregation left the church, nmid considerabl- Confusion when the de cree was r.6ad. Ulshop Cohalan gave notice h Week ago of his intention to Issue i he dc ;ree. ( i m R ' HOI SI R UDED I :K LI-AST Dec. SO. The court house ;ii Gork was raided Saturday bv crown forces. fftclals of the county , council and of other bodlea occupying th building WOIJC held Up and seardi-j ed. X arrests wees made, however. W hile walking along Bridge street; in Cork. Nuney O'SlllliVan, was shot In the leg. There is no clew to the penOn Who inflicted the injury, si SPKCT ARRESTED Dublin. Dec. 20. A stranger who! Mtld he was from Galway was arrested bsfl last nlghl In the Central which bas been used for officers' quaiv t.-rs since the aasasBinattonsj last i 4 month The mm li.nl i bomb n.l I revolver In his pockcl 1 I'urliiK his ii-mo al l Dublin t'.is 1 lie, then .i - si rei i firing dui ik I which one man was wounded, it Is not own whether be was associated with IB tin- prisoner. ri:t i s i it maih! IVl Dei BV agan "vice president of the Sinn Fein" jAp, has been corresponding 'ith ihi w Uriel i I Ireland, Jr. Lloyd jH Ceorge's l.iti-st iiiissa.gr in which lh(- H premier minister regretted that the door had been closed to 'those coun-Kj coun-Kj ells of good will which you invoked BS at ill.- beginning of this corrcspond- In his rejoimlei, l-,:her ' Kla naga n - I I HI I II I'l ( 1 I I I "We .igri-f thai Iwc ilnugs arc de- roconc'l It Is Ol T)l nil ' . I t.i . i i i . . '. 1 1 ! . . ...it' ii w i IBlltution In your attack on the liberty of the Irish peoples." Proceeding to argue that the Sinn Coin is a peaceful organization reacting react-ing only to violent attacks upon it. Father O'K'lanagan continued. "Remove the cause and 'he defects will cease automatically." He says that reconciliation is only possible when accredited representatives representa-tives of both nations meet as equals and concludes: "I have suggested the onl way I believe be-lieve peace to be possible. I have not thereby closed the door, though I may have discovered H closed when I thought to find il open " , BILL is CONDEMNED NEW YORK, n- 20 The British government's "Irish bill" may go through at Westminster, but it will never be acceptable to Ireland, Sir Horace Plunkett. Irish statesman and f. ther of the dominion solution bill" said Sunday on his arrival from Liverpool Liver-pool on the Baltic. The trouble with the bill. Sir Horace-declared, Horace-declared, is that il represents the Interests In-terests of Ofllj about on. -fifth Of Unpeople Un-people of Ireland and is repugnant to the remaining four-fifths COMING TO WEST "It is not the way to Irish peace," he added Sir Horace said lie would not appear as a witness before the committee of one hundred investigating eondlii.'i" In Ireland and he explained his visit here as solely one of recreation. "I will leave New York very soon for the west," he said. "I will lose myself for about two months, I want to be quiet and, com-j pared with Ireland now, America is a wilderness." Although reluctant to discusB the Irish political situation, he complimented compli-mented the American and French newspapers on their enterprise In sending Journalists to Ireland PR USES i s REPOR1 I EtS "These men have been swarming into Ireland for many monthSi he a,dd-( ed. "They have given the world generally, gen-erally, the truth und American people now know more of conditions there than do tin- people of ESngland," He added that the Irish question! was made dift icultin Great Britain because the British people were not1 informed of the true conditions In Ireland. Ire-land. He asserted that if they were informed, in-formed, nine-tenths of the British public would be against the Irish bill ( as it now stands. Mis E. C. Wllkenson and Mrs. A E. Koblnson, representing the Women's Trade Unions, who have been in Ireland Ire-land were among the passengers. The) cpect to testify before the coiumntee of one hundred. In the vaults of the ship was a consignment con-signment of gold valued at more than 200,000 pounds sterling. uO POTATOES. CHICAGO. Dec. 20. Potatoes dull, receipts re-ceipts 51 cars; northern white sacked 51 1 t." cwl.. bulk SI.4V.il i". . wt. .Minnesota and North Dakota, lied river I iidos saceked li.cn |