ONE MONTH'S VINTAGE OF. "BLACK-ANDTANNISM."

New Zealand Tablet, 24 February 1921, Page 23

ONE MONTH'S VINTAGE OF. "BLACK-AND-TANNISM."

The official organ of the Sinn Fein supplies the Irish World with a list of the crimes committed in Ireland during the month of November by the English army of occupation. The separate items in the list shed a lurid light upon existing conditions in Ireland. Let us check them off: Killed and wounded of the Irish Republican Army, 12; civilians killed, 61; civilians wounded, 101 ; halls and clubs wrecked, 33; creameries burned down, 9; newspaper offices wrecked, 5 ; shops, houses, and farms burned, 193; crops destroyed, 71 ; men publicly flogged, 35. This is one month's crop of outrages against a people who are guilty of the crime of seeking to obtain for their motherland the self-determination, which England and her Allies declared would be secured for all small nations as a result of making the world "safe for democracy through a victory for the Allies in the Great War. The men of Cork and of other Irish communities who have been rendered homeless by the "Black-and-Tan" atrocities must now bitterly recall these promises as they see their native land made the victim of crimes that are a blot upon our civilisation.