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Show iilliSH ARMY FOUND GUILTY R mi mi is h itf j" Bj I 4 L w Kyi Itu u I clir wil 8 2.tc''' AccuGations Contained in : Report of Committee of One Hundred ERIN LIKE BELGIUM Innocent Men, Women and Children Killed, Document Docu-ment Declares WASHINGTi i.V. March 31 Moral responsibility for the present disorders in Ireland Is placed upon tho British 1 over in en, by the commission of the icommltte? of one hundred Investigating Investigat-ing the IrHh question I.- .1 30.0O0-word report made public today and covering cover-ing the examination of witnesses at .public henrlngs held by the commis-'sion commis-'sion In Washing! :n last November, j De mbep and January. Tho report has been Issued under the titled of "The American Commission Commis-sion on Conditions in Ireland," which announces that it will continue the inquiry. in-quiry. , Declaring that the commission was "under the dii tdvantage of lacking the official Brit ?h sid, of the caso" except ex-cept as It was gathered from documents docu-ments presented to It. the report declares de-clares thai "the Imperial British army in Ireland has been Kiiilty of proved I excesses, not Incomparable In degree and kind with those alleged, by Ihc I Bryce report on Belgium atrocities, to have been commuted by the imperial (German army " The Bryce commia-jslon. commia-jslon. It Is pointed out. was similarly handicapped. 3s w n vnssi s he mid Thlrly-elght witnesses of alleged, atrocltl'.a including is Irish. 18 Am-I jorlcan and two English citizens, ti -- I I if !-! before the Wffltfiisslon. Thej ex-parte In spite of Its efforts to hear all sides. The testimony available, the report says. fiies the case therc-fore, therc-fore, almost wholly from the Irish republican re-publican or Sinn Fein viewpoint or from sources not unsympathetic to the application of the principle Of self j determination to Ireland." The Ulster Unionist viewpoint and that of the British authorities in Ireland, the report re-port says, were not rep It 11 nted among the witnesses il PRP ED Ol PRO! Ed BN. Summing up Its conclusions after heating al the testimony, the com-mUttlon com-mUttlon finds " that the Irish people are deprived Of the protection of British Brit-ish law. to which thc would be en-tltled en-tltled as subjects of trie British King. They are likewise deprived of the moral protection granted by international interna-tional law, to which lhe would be. entitled us belligerents. They are at ihe mercy of imperial British forces which, acting contrary both to all law and to standards of human conduct, have institute, 1 in Ireland a terror.' the evidence regarding which seems I to prove that: SIMM BV Ol 1VID1 nci:. "1 The Imperial British government govern-ment has created and Introduced into Ireland a force of at least 78,000 men, many of them youthful and Inexperienced, Inexper-ienced, and some of them conicts and has incited Dial force to unbridled violence. 2 The Imperial British forces in Ii eland have indiscriminately killed innocent men, women and children; have tortured and rhot prisoners while in custody, adopting tho subterfuges1 of 'refusal to half and 'attempting lo escape"; and have attributed lo alleged alleg-ed Sinn Fein extremists' the British assassination of prominent Irish Republicans. Re-publicans. "3 House burning and wanton destruction de-struction of villages and cities by Imperial Im-perial British forces under Imperial British officers have been countenanced, countenanc-ed, und ordered by officials of tho British government; and elaborate! proMslon by gasoline sprays and bombs has been made in a number of instances for systematic Incendiarism Incendiar-ism as nart of a plan Of terrorism. I ( rOKIl 6 !H KM l "1 A campaign for the destruction Of tho means of existence of the lrlh people has been conducted by the burning of factories, creameries, crops and farm Implements and the bhootlnK of farm animals. This campaign is carried on regardless of the political) views of their owners, and results in j widespread and acute suffering among women and children "5 Acting under a series of proe-lamatlons proe-lamatlons hsued by the competent I military authorities of the Imperial British forces, hostages are carried by forces exposed to the flro of the Republican Re-publican army; fines are levied upon 1 towns and villages as punishment fori alleged offenses of individuals; irl-l ate property Is destroyed in reprisal I for acts with which the owners have1 no connection; and th, civilian population pop-ulation is subjected to an Inquisition upon tho theory that Individuals are In possession of information valuable to the military forces of Great Brit- j aln These acts of the Imperial Brit-lab, Brit-lab, forces are. contrary to the laws of peace or war among modern civilized natlons- BRrnsn lose tjt- "6 This "terror" has failed to reestablish re-establish Imperial British (i ov-ornmani ov-ornmani In Ireland. Throughout the greater part of Ireland British courts have ceased to function; local, county, and city governments refuse to rec- i ognlze British authority, and British civil officials fulttll no function of aerl vice to the Irish people. "7 In spite of the British 'terror'! the majority of the Irish people have sanctioned bv ballot th,- Irish republic, repub-lic, give their allegiance lo It; pay Uxes to It. and respect the decisions of its courtj and of its civil officials" |