DRAMATIC RAID

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 76, 31 March 1922, Page 7

DRAMATIC RAID

ASSAULT ON FREEMAN'S JOURNAL

PAPER'S INDIGNANT PROTEST.

(Received March 31, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 20th March. Two hundred armed men, undisguised, descended in motor-cars upon the- offices of the Freeman's Journal in Dublin after midnight, seized -the departments, and turned out the staffs. They demolished the machin«i'y, smashed the telegraph instruments, and set fire to the building. The fire brigade arrived promptly, and confined the flames to the rear, part of the building, and little damage wjs done by ■ the fire; but the. destruction" of the machinery was extensive. Details show that two hundred rebels in motor-cars carried out the Taid. The paper was issued ac a small sheet to-day. It declared : ("What Sir Hamar Greenwood, General M'Cteady, General Strickland, the British Army auxiliaries, and the Black and Tans failed to do, the seceding section of the I.R.A. has done. The Freeman's Journal, which has fought for Irish Liberty so long, will not be silenced, nor will the Irish people bs terrorised out of their rights. They have fought for freedom, not for the rule of mutinous huliies." (Received March .31, noon.) LONDON, 30th March. The Irish terms provide for special police in mixed districts, composed of Catholics, a special juryless Court, to be constituted to try serious offences, and the Republican Army, activities to cease in six counties.