FREEDOM IN IRELAND: MAY 1, 1916, TO SEPTEMBER, 1919.

New Zealand Tablet, 8 January 1920, Page 21

FREEDOM IN IRELAND: MAY 1, 1916, TO SEPTEMBER, 1919.

The following is a summary of outrages committed by the British Government in Ireland during the period from May I, 1916, to September - 30, 1919: From May, 1916, to September, 1919. Killed, 58; deportations,. 2076; armed assaults on unarmed civilians, 431; raids on private houses, 5859; arrests, 5394; sentences, 1998; proclamations and suppressions, 292; suppressions of newspapers, 51 (28 papers denied foreign circulation) courts-martial, 524. Total, 16,599. May 1 to December 31, 1916. — Killed, 38; deportations, 1949; armed assaults on civilians, wholesale; raids on houses, wholesale; arrests, 3226; courts-martial, 199; sentences, 160; proclamations and suppressions, general; suppressions of newspapers, 13. Total, 5601. Year 1917. —Killed, 7; deportations, 24; armed assaults on civilians, 18; raids on private houses, 11; arrests, 349; courts-martial, 36; sentences, 269; proclamations and suppressions, 2; suppressions of newspapers, 3. Total, 719. Year 1918. —Killed, 6; deportations, 91; arrests, 1107; raids, 260; sentences, 973; courts-martial, 62; proclamations and suppressions, 32; armed assaults, 81; suppressions of newspapers, 12 (28 papers denied foreign circulation). Total, 2624. Year 1919 to September 30. —Killed, 7; deportations, 12; arrests, 712; raids, 5588; sentences, 596; courts-mar-tial, 227; armed assaults, 332; proclamations and suppressions. 258; suppressions of newspapers, 23. Total, 7655. The Newspaper Suppressions.-—The following is a list of the papers suppressed during this period: Ballina Herald, Ballina; Belfast Evening Telegraph, Belfast; Bottom Dog , Limerick; Cork Examiner, Cork; Cork Weekly Examiner, Cork; Cork Evening Echo, Cork; Glare Champion, Ennis; Enniscorthy Echo, Enniscorthy; Evening Herald, Dublin; Fainnc an Lae, Dublin; The Factionist, Limerick; Freedom, Dublin; Galway Express, Galway; The Gael, Dublin; Honesty, Dublin; The Irishman, Dublin; Irish World, Dublin; Irish Republic, Limerick; Irish Winker, Dublin; Irish Volunteer, Dublin; Ireland, Dublin; Kilkenny People, Kilkenny; Kerryman , Tralee; Killarney Echo, Tralee; Kerry Weekly Reporter, Tralee; Kerry News, Kerry; The Leader, Dublin; Limerick Leader, Limerick; Limerick Echo, Limerick; Liberator, Tralee; Mayo News, Westport: Munster News. Limerick; Meath Chronicle, Navan; Nationality, Dublin: Newcastle West Observer, Newcastle West: New Ireland, Dublin; The. Republic, Dublin; The Spark, Dublin; Scissors and Paste, Dublin; Sligo Nationalist. Sligo -.Sinn Fein, Dublin; Southern Star, Skibbereen ; The Voice of Labor, Dublin; Waterford News, Waterford; Weekly Nationalist Journal, Westmeath; Independent. Athlone; The Worker, Dublin; The Workers’ Republic, Dublin.