Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1920 — IRISH TOWN IS SACKED [ARTICLE]

IRISH TOWN IS SACKED

UNIFORMED MEN BURN HOMES IN DRIMOLEAGUE, IRELAND. • Act of Reprisal for the Shooting of a Sergeant— Warnings Rooted In Drogheda. Dublin, Oct. I.—Uniformed men wrecked several houses and burned others in Drhnoieague, near Skibbereen, as a reprisal for the shooting of a sergeant when a police patrol was attacked Tuesday n+gjit. A number of the inhabitants had left their homes earlier In the day, fearing reprisals would be carried out. Notices have been posted In Drogheda bearing the following warning: “Drogheda, beware I If in this vicinity a policeman is shot, five of the leading Sinn Felners will be shot. It is not coercion. It is an eye for an eye. '"We are not 'drink-maddened savages,’ as we have been described in Dublin ‘rags.’ We are not out for loot. We are as humane as other ■Christians, but we have restrained ourselves too long. “Are we to He down while our comrades are being shot in cold blood by the corner tjoys and ragamuffins of Ireland? We sny ‘Never,’ and all the inquiries in the world won’t halt our desire for revenge. In case of the shooting we will lay low every house that smells of the Sinn Fein. And remember Balbriggan."