Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-03 | Page 7 | Reprisals by Troops in Erin Shock London

UPRilS TROOPS IN ERIN SHOCKLOHDON Press Denounces Burning of Village as Savage Outrage on Decency LONDON. Jan. 3. The population of Iondon received a shock when the details of the burning of the Irish town of MIddleton on Saturday were made public yesterday This shock was particularly felt In uuarlers where It had been supposed that martial law In southwestern Ireland would put an end to such reprisals. Nowhere is there outspoken approval of the punishment pun-ishment meted out to the Irish village hy Mijor-General Sir EM ward Strickland, Strick-land, and there evidently Is some reluctance re-luctance to endorse this method of keeping order. REASOM FOR BURNING In official Bta.tetn.ents It Is declared Ihal seven dwellings in MIddleton were destroyed ius a result of ambush of police near that town Wednesday 1 leclaratlon was made that the authorities au-thorities had decided that the people in cert. i'n houses in Hie vicinity of the outrage must have known of the plot to ambush the police and that after the Inhabitants in houses selected for destruction had been warned to leave, the buildings were set on fire. The occupants were permitted to remove their Valuables, but to leave their furniture behind, in Not St I ii Bl PR i While declining to question th act of burning the houses on the ground that It was a drastic measure, the London Times questions th adequacy of the explanation ;hat the inhabitants of the burned dwellings were bound to have known of Ihe ambush fft.tal reprisal." the newspaper continues, "may be 0 rOUBJU form of Justice, but, deplte the roughness, the element of justice f-hould be always beyond question." The Dally Xews says "the reports Will be read with amazement and dls-pair. dls-pair. It Is a savage' outrage upon human decency and '.he matter cannot can-not he left where It Is." The Daily Herald, organ of labor, calls it 'savage and diabolical violence vio-lence "and calls upon labor to ' stop this war upon a nation." ' 1 Clll