CORK INCENDIARISM.

Northern Advocate, 15 December 1920, Page 5

CORK INCENDIARISM.

WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE?

CROWN FORCES DEFENDED

(ißeceived 9.10 a.m.)

-LONDON, Dec. 13

'Considerable looting took place in Cork outside the fire zone. Burglars raided a jeweller's premisies. securing the. keys of the strong room at the point of revolvers. The, police fired killing a woman burglar. iSir Hamar /Greenwood, in the House of Commons, protested vigorously against the suggestion that the fires in iCork were started by the forces of the Crown. There was evidence that incendiary Ibo.m'bs were used of which 'the Crown forces possessed none, but the Sinn Fedners did. 'The House negatived the Kenworthy motion for an adjournment. He said he had evidence that the outrages in Cork were, due to officers and Crown forces. Soldiers had been committing murders nightly in Cork city. Hundreds of shops had been looted and citizens pulblicly whipped. Sir Hamar Greenwood in replying, said that martial law meant earnest discipline of the forces of the Crown. As a master pf fact the soldiers saved Conk from absolute destruction, for when the fire brigades were exhausted the soldiers and police took over the work. There was , no evidence that the police had caused the; fires, except in a few instances where Ibomlbs were thrown into lorries. A. and* N.Z.