24 MARCH 1923, Page 26

On Monday most of the House's time was again taken

up by Labour attacks on the Government over the Irish deportations. The Speaker had to help .M.r. Buchanan to draft a new motion for the adjournment, since Mr. Boner Law'a q‘uick, tactical eye detected that the one which the Labour Member asked leave to move was exactly the same as last week's. The onus of the attack on. the Government was that without trial they had removed men to another jurisdiction than their own, and so lost control of them. Against this, Mr. Bridgeman, the Home Secretary, could bring up, for what it was worth, that the Free State had given an undertaking not to proceed against these men without "communicating with the British Government.