Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 254, 5 September 1921 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, SEPT. 5, 1921.

TEXT OF IRISH REPLY DECLARES REJECTION

OF TERMS IS FINAL

(By Associates Frets) LONDON. Sept. 5. The text of re

ply of the Irish Republican parliament

to Prime Minister Lloyd George's latest communication, signed by DeVa lera, follows: - - :

We. too. are convinced it is es

sential that a 'definite and immediate

progress should be made toward

basis upon which further negotiations

can proceed usefully," and recognize the .futility of ', 'a mere exchange" of argumentive notes. I therefore shall

refrain from commenting on the fal

lacious historical references in your

last communication.

"The present is the reality with

which we have to deal.

"The conditions of today are tho

results of the past Accurately summing up, and giving in simplest form

the essential data of the problem

these data are: . ' .

"1. The citizens ; of . Ireland, ac

knowledging no voluntary union with

Great Britain and claiming as their fundamental and natural right to

choose freely for themselves the path they shall take to realize their national destiny, have declared, ty an ovewhelraing majority, for independence and to set up a republic, and more than once have confirmed their choice. "2. Great Britain, on the other hand, acts as though Ireland were bound to her by a contract of union that forbade separation. "The circumstances of the supposed contract are notorious. Yet, on the theory of validity, the British government and parliament claimed to rule and legislate for Ireland, even to the point of partitioning Irish territory aeainst the will of . the . Irish, and

killing or casting into prison every Irish citizen who refuses allegiance. The proposals of your government, submitted in, the draft of July 20, are based fundamentally on the latter premises.. "Rejection Is Irrevocable." "We rejected those proposals and our rejection is irrevocable. They are not an invitation to Ireland to enter into a free and willing partnership with the free nations of the British commonwealth. They are an invitation to Ireland to enter in the guise of and under conditions which determine a status definitely inferior to that of these free states. "Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand all are guaranteed against domination by the major state hot only by acknowledged constitutional rights that give them equality of status with Great Briain and absolute freedom from the control from the

British parliament, but by the tbousnsd of miles that separate them from Great Britain. "Ireland would have guarantees neither of distance nor of right. The conditions sought to be inxposed would divide her into two artificial states, each destructive of the other's influence in any common council, and both subject to military, naval and economic control by the British government. "The main historical andt geographic facts are not in dispute, but your government insists on viewinglthem from your standpoint, and we must be allowed to view them fromours. The history you interpret as ditetating union, we read as dictating separation. I Convinced of Right

r "Our Interpretation of the fact of 'geographical propinquity' is opposed

no less diametrically. We are con

vinced that ours is the true and just interpretation and as proof are willing

lhat a neutral and impartiaharbitrator

fchould be the judge.

i "You refuse and threaten-to give effect to your view by force. Our reply must be that, if you adopt that course, we only can resist, as generations before us have resisted. Force will not solve the problem and it never will se

cure the ultimate victory over reason

wid right.

"If you again resort to force, and li

victory be not on the side of justice, the problem that confronts us will con

front our successors. The fact tnat for 750 years the problem has resisted

solution by force is sufficient evidence and warning. It is true wisdom, there

fore, and true statesmanship, not any false idealism, that prompts me and

my colleagues. "Threats of force must be set aside. They must be set aside from the beginning as well as during actual 'Conduct of the negotiations. n "The respective plenipotentiaries must meet untrammeled by any conditions save the- facts themselves, and must be prepared to reconcile subsequent differences, not by appeals to force, covert or open, but by reference to a guiding principle on which there is common agreement. "Mere Phrase" Disclaimed.

"We have proposed the principle of

government by consent of the govern

ed, and do not mean it to be a

mere phrase.

"It is a single expression of the test to which any proposed solution must respond if it i3 to prove to be adequate, and it can bo used as the criterion lor the details as well as for

the whole. . '

"That you . claim it as a peculiarly

British principle, instituted by the

British and "now the very life of the British commonwealth,' should make

it peculiarly acceptable to you.

"On this basis, and this only, we see

hope of reconciling 'the considerations that must govern the attitude' of Great Britain's representatives with the considerations that must govern

the attitude of Ireland's representatives, and on this basis we are ready to appoint plenipotentiaries immediately." Except that De Velera seems to ignore the prime minister s warning of danger in continued delay, the position is much the same as on the occasion of the last exchange of letters. . The most threatening feature of the situation still remains the refusal of Ulster to yield the slightest point and,

in persistence of this attitude, it is recognized, there is real danger.

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The. British commander or a military post told his wife at luncheon one day that she had better warn a neighbor woman to remove to safety her valuable old furniture, as her house had a flat roof and might be required later by the military for machine gun emplacements. That night a Sinn Fein party called at the house, drove out the occupants and tied them to trees, and then fired the house with all its contents. "Your house has a

flat roof, the leader laconically informed he owner. A Sinn Fein servant had overheard the commandant's remark to his wife, and had informed the I. R. A. Irish roads are still full of trenches.

huge boulders and pitfalls, and many bridges have been partially wrecked. These obstructions have not been removed during the truce, and are ready tor the resumption of bushwhacking

warfare. We. are told that if the Englistf government concludes to resume operations, it is likely to employ regular army units in place of the "black and tans," and to seize and occupy hostile territory in a systematic manner. A cordon will be drawn around the Sinn

Fein forces, if possible, and tightened until the I. R. A. is cornered. It can hardly be foretold whether Sinn Fein plans to fight in regular battle forma

tion at any time, although It has been drilling and equipping its men diligently throughout the period of the truce.

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RETURN REV, JAMES TO RICHMOND CHARGE H. S. James, pastor . of the local United Brethren church, has been returned to Richmond for the thirteenth year of service. Announcement of his re-appointment was made by Bishop H. H. Fout- of Indianapolis, at the closing session of the White River conference of the United Brethren church, in Anderson, Sunday.

The Rev. James also was appointed

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He was named examining pastor for ministers completing their fourth year of service.

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Dynamite in July, 1868 Alfred Nobel, the great chemist, invented dynamite, and its first public test, made at Merstham, July 14, 1868, established beyond a doubt its tremendous potentalities. It remained for a German, von Dahmen, to improve on the manufacture of dynamite in such a manner that the "safety" variety could , be produced, and this process was patented in 1S99. The United States government, realizing the incalculable value of dyna

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By VICTOR-McNAUGHT DUBLIN, Sept. 5 Possibility of the resumption of hostilities between crown forces and the Irish Republican army is regarded with sick hearts by the majority of the people of Ireland.

Without coming here, no one can i

realize the ghastly and brutal features of the struggle as waged during the past few months. Sinn Fein leaders take sride in saying that thus far they have fought as the American colonies fought in their revolution. This suggestion brings to mind the immortal fields of Bunker Hill, Bennington, Saratoga and Yorktown, where our men fought in the open. The I. R.- A. has had no engagement to parallel any of these, as all of its chief operations have been conducted at night. Perhaps Sinn Fein has reference to the operations of Marion and others, who harassed the British forces after Tarleton, Corn-

wallis and Benedict Arnold had laid waste whole countrysides in the south. In repressing turbulence and pursuing the slayers of Irish constables,

the British have employed the "black and tans," who look very much like

the strike-breakers that we sometimes

see in America. Their record is well known.- They burned a good part of Cork after some of their number had been killed in ambush.

The Irish Republican army does not

fight battles in the daylight, but keeps

in hiding in out-of-theway places until

nightfall makes it possible to gather

and proceed to a distant spot where an

ambuscade is to take place. A very

dark spot in a deep, wooded glen is

always preferred for an operation like

this. A trench is dug across the road to halt the British motors when they come, and the party then hides among the trees and undergrowth along the banks at either side of the road. When the English come up and are stopped by the trench, the Sinn Feiners proceed to shoot them from cover.

Atrocities Outdone

Feiners proceeded to mangle some of the bodies with axes in a manner precluding description. A British surgeon who examined the bodies later testified that nothing he had seen in the World war had been quite so

trying. The burning of Cork followed

an affair of this kind.

With the event just described in mind, Mrs. Lindsay of Coachford,

County Cork, a widow of sixty years

saw preparations for another ambush one day when out driving in her car. She notified the military, the plan was frustrated, one Sinn Fein soldier was killed . in the skirmish, and several others were hanged. Mrs. Lindsay was taken from her bed at one o'clock

in the morning, and with her chauffeur

was carried away to secret captivity.

A few days ago the Sinn Fein minister

of defense, Burgess, notified Mrs. Lind

say's sister that "stern necessity" had required Sinn Fein to shoot both Mrs.

Lindsay and the chauffeur. The two had been buried in one grave. Mrs.

Lindsay was the eighth woman to suffer death at the hands of Sinn Fein. The Belfast papers denounced this act as worse than the execution of Nurse

Cavell by the Germans, but the press

or England, anxjous to avoid reference to anything that might disturb negotiations, minimized the matter. An English officer has been under sentence of death for some time, sentence having been passed at a Sinn Fein court martial at which he was of course not present. If the truce is ended, any Sinn Feiner is free to

execute the sentence. The officer

never goes out without a strong guard, but he is aware that unless he leaves

Ireland he is doomed, if hostilities are renewed. This officer narrates some

or nis observations thus: Thrown in Quicklime,

"I have known persons not vet dead

to be thrown into beds of quicklime.

a iamny tnat had given offense by in-

rorming trie military of Sinn Fein

plans was rounded ud for Dunishment

irb women were compelled to strip, and sit astride a rail laid between two

near by. Sinn Fein riflemen then proceeded to shoot off portions of their persons until, having sufficiently mutilated their victims," they shot them dead." This story has not been

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