No one has disputed the statement we made recently that
Captain Bowen-Colthurst, who is still in the Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Broadmoor, is being treated worse than the men and non-com- missioned officers who are suffering, as he is, from shell-shock. We therefore assume that our statement is true, and we shall continue to assume it is true till it is contradicted. The deeds during the Dublin revolt for which Captain Colthurst was condemned were done, as the medical evidence proved, while he was in an unbalanced mental state. Earlier in the war shell-shocked men who were suffering from temporary insanity were sent to asylums, and public opinkin regarded that as harsh treatment which could not be toler- ated. It demanded that they should be nursed back to health in Homes where they would be specially treated.
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