General Macready in a remarkable interview with the corre- spondent
of the Philadelphia Public Ledger—reproduced in Tuesday's Morning Post—described clearly the foul methods of the Sinn Fein rebels. " What they do is this : surrounded by a group of men, women, and children, they fire at Crown forces or throw bombs. If they use revolvers, they pass them to the women who work with them. When we search the men, we find they are unarmed, and it is very difficult, very difficult indeed, to search women, and although we know that they are as active as the men, we have done nothing to them." General Macready went on to express his astonishment at the calmness of the troops and police who are menaced daily in the streets of Dublin by these treacherous enemies. General Macready said that, despite their base tactics, Sinn Feiners, when taken, always had a fair trial, whereas they themselves gave short shrift to their victims. He told the correspondent that " there is no such thing as a Bisek-and-Tan to-day." The British recruits reinforcing the Royal Irish Constabulary had been amalgamated with that body. General Macready stated also that there was no starvation in Ireland, although people in districts where the rebels had damaged the roads and railways necessarily ran short of their usual supplies.
Previous page
