rIVENTS in Ireland have been of unexampled horror. 12.1 Those of us who can remember well the furious wave Of indignation and pity which swept the country when Lord Frederick...

crimes in Dublin on Sunday morning. Pasties of armed men visited eight private houses and hotels where British officers were staying and murdered in cold blood eleven officers,...

of experience who were employed on non-combatant duties, especially in connexion with courts martial. It is thought that the murderers hoped to secure the papers relating to the...

a foreign e nemy attacks us, and the attack made upon the Kingdom by the Sinn Feiners, though different in degree and in intensity, is not different in kind. The attack is being...

prevent the escape of the murderers. All outward traflic was suspended, people were ordered to be indoors by ten o'clock at night, and many houses were searched and numerown...

us in no doubt. They say that Sinn Fein courts are ceasing to week, that the principal assassins arc in flight, and that some of the villages are empty of active Sinn Feiners...

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letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do hie beat to return contributions in case of rejection.

letter captured last week among the papers of the "Republican Chief of Staff," and read in the House on Thursday, November 18th, by the Chief Secretary. In this letter the...

"between persons in this House and men whose hands are red with blood." Sir Hamar Greenwood pointed out that the total number of Creameries was 710, of which it was alleged that...

Sinn Feiners and afterwards murdered. Two men who had been acquitted at a Dublin court martial were murdered on their way home to Limerick, presumably by Sinn Feiners who...

Monday the official account of the cold-blooded murders of officers in Dublin the day before. The House was deeply moved by the recital. The Prime Minister, in reply to a...

the Irish Nationalist press and the Nationalist members sought to divert attention from the " killing " of the officers by exagger- ating and distorting the affray at Croke Park...

appealed to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Ireland to condemn the murders with as much energy as that with which they had resisted Conscription. When people talked about the...

from various parts of the country. A gang of three men, driven by a nurse in a motor-car, was intercepted last Saturday and captured ; they had ten rifles taken from murdered...

enormous advantage of being in possession of the facts. Mr. Asquith and his followers have relied far too much—we would add even to a discreditable extent—upon evidence...

moved the second reading of the Government of Ireland Bill in an able and temperate speech. He pointed out that Ulster must either be left within the Union or given a separate...

mitted a. motion designed to establish three principles. The first part of the motion expressed abhorrence of the brutal crimes committed by the Sinn Fein murderers. This, so...

on Saturday last. The veteran politician, who was eighty-eight, will be remembered as the close ally of Mr. Chamberlain and as the ardent advocate of small holdings and...

Bow Street on Friday. November 19th, of advocating sedition in his Albert Hall speech of November 7th. Ho was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, but was released on bail...

in the House of Commons on Thursday, November 18th. Mr. Munro explained that the Bill would empower departments and local bodies to acquire land compulsorily for "works of...

believed that the Irish were really fit to govern themselves. Home Rule would not work in a disaffected Ireland. Lord Londonderry defended the Bill as a fair compromise, and...

ground that it met with no support from most Irishmen, who wanted "full fiscal and financial control" over Trish affair' s. Lord Willoughby de Broke said that he still believed...

that the Liberals from 1886 onwards had erred in not recognizing Ulster's right to separate treatment. Yet there could be no settlement until the differences between North and...

Greece in the Chamber on Tuesday. France, he said, did not wish to intervene in Greek domestic affairs. But if Greece recalled a sovereign who was the accomplice of our enemies,...

Wrekin division of Shropshire as an independent supporter of the Coalition. He defeated the Labour candidate, Mr. Duncan, by 3,965 votes on a heavy poll. In the by-election of...

the Home of Commons last week and again this week. The agricultural members tried hard to reduce the heavy compensa- tion payable to a dispossessed tenant, but the Government...

Apr. 15, 1920; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 821; Thursday week, 83k; a year ago, 901

THE NEMESIS OF MURDER. A T last the English people seem to be awakening from their sleep, or at any rate from their indifference. The murders perpetrated in Dublin on Sunday,...

W E hope that Mr. Stephen Graham's Children of the Slaves, reviewed by us in this issue of the Spectator, will be read with the attention it deserves both in England and in...

I F the proceedings of the League of Nations at Geneva had taken place in normal times, they would have captured and held the attention of the whole world. As it was, the minds...

B RITISH Bolshevism is on the run. It is a maxim -UP of the military art to keep the enemy running when he has started, and we hope the maxim will be remembered now not only by...

MHE people most interested in books cannot now buy • them, or only to a very limited extent. This does not mean that they read no new books ; it means only that they read them...

VOR most of us the Arab is a rather incomprehensible, ine,crutable person, belonging, as it were, to another sphere of humanity, and as our idea's of him are thus based on that...

THE REACTION IN TRADE. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sfa, — Depression still prevails throughout the Stock Markets, thus justifying, I am afraid, the restrained view...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] WOMEN AND CAMBRIDGE...

Spec-mm."1 Sum,—Those of us who took part, in however casual a way, fa the breathless but cheerful turmoil of the election of 1905 sill remember that Mr. Chamberlain's...

[To ma Emma or THE " Simerwroa."1 Faa,—Mr. Moreton Frewen, in ids interesting letter, imposes too great a strain upon our imagination. His hypothesis is that if Lord Jellicoe...

doctrine of " Fight " that you propound so eloquently in your issue of the 19th inst. surely needs no doubtful buttresses to support its imposing fabric. It is therefore to be...

`.• • [To THE EDITOR or THE " Aizeratort."] " Sus—Please do what you can to impress on the British public that every ono in Ireland is not against the Home Rule Bill of...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sig,—With reference to the letter from Mr. James MacLehose in your issue of November 20th, I regret that Lamington is no isolated instance...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIE.—I should like to be allowed to answer as shortly as I can the letter of a "Loyal Irishman" which appeared in your issue of the 13th...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In the Crown Colony of Hong Kong the buying and foaling of human beings goes on openly, in spite of the law forbidding such sales,...

OF THE "SPECTATOR.") 81 14—It is surprising that none of those who have sought to Justify the Irish" assassinations or to palliate their guilt (i: any) have ever cited the...

" SrEcraron."3 Sfe,—Your leading article in your issue of the 20th inst. about Russia is probably the best that I have read on this very vexed question of the British attitude...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—I wish I could number myself with those more fortunate people who are "unfamiliar with goats." My daughter ha s kept them in large...

(To rut Burma or rwz SpEcrwroa."l ara much interested in Mrs. Du Boulay's letter in the Spectator concerning " Beatlands," Sidmouth, in which 1 lived for eleven years from 1899...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR21 Sia,—We are anxious that the 2100,000 Appeal for the British Empire Fund towards the restoration of Rheims Cathedral should be completed...

But,—While agreeing with your remarks on the right attitude towards Russia, I think you might have gone on to point out what an immense benefit Lenin and his associates have...

[To T'HE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—It may interest some of your readers to know that a pair of peregrine falcons passed over Hampstead and Golder's Green on October...

writer's name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or an marked "Communicated," the Editor mud not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sui,—May one refer to the review of Lady Evans's book on Lustre Pottery in your journal of the 13th inst., which states that the lustre is...

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ARABESQUE. RE-READING on an English wold, Made misty will September light, The thousand stories that of old Made live each long Arabian night, Colour and mystery as a haze Had...

CHILDREN OF 1.11.a SLAVES.* WE have dealt in our leading columns with the reasons why Mr. Stephen Graham's book The Children of the Slaves deservd special attention. Here we...

"ROMEO AND JULIET" AT THE EVERYMAN THEATRE, HAMPSTEAD. VERY late- and much depressed by the accounts of the production - which I had read, I toiled up to Hampstead, a martyr to...

ROYAIRY.—Milestonea • • competent revival of this agreeable play.] PLAY/MDSE.—The Romantic Age Miss Catherine Nesbit has joined the cast of Mr. Mllne's little comedy.]...

likely to remain the most damning criticism of Bolshevism, whether that strange delusion be considered as a faith or as a political institutior. We say " faith " because Mr....

UNSLEEPING vigilance is the price of liberty. We hope that the account of the Be Keyser's Hotel case, which Mr. Leslie Scott ard Mr. Idildesley have written, will be widely read...

TIIE Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence has done well to devote a part of the history of the Grad War, which is appearing under its direction, to our...

THE PEOPLE OF THE 111TINS.t WA wish that somebody had made Mr. Shanks read Tarsas of the Apes and the book about Mara which has been written by the author of that masterpiece....

TEN years have passed since the literary world was startled and in some measure puzzled by the appearance of Madame Marguerite Audoux's pastoral novel, Marie-Claire, the picture...

net.)—The best chapters in this novel deal with the two occasions in the heroine's life when she is an inmate Of a convent in Holland. The account of her married life in India...

PUBLIC SCHOOL VERSE.* &arc of the work in Public School Verse is extremely good ; the collectors of it are very much to be congratulated. The Present writer knows from personal...

Hilda Conkling. (G. Harrap. 4s. Od.)—For the ages specified in the preface these poems are a remarkable achievement. They contain imagination and a depth of feeling unusual in...

ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND FAIRY TALES. The Lang Road to Victory, edited by Colonel Buchan (Nelson, 7s. 6d. not), is a most interesting colleotion of true stories of the war, mostly...

[Notice in this column does not neeessarill/ Frei stdworted t's. 16 .1 Etc-King Constantine and the War. By George M. Mos. (Hutchinson. 12s. 8d. net.)-The former secretary of...

critical survey of novels written by the younger women writers of to-day, with lists of their works appended. A book that should prove interesting to all who care for modern...

Treaty Series, as a supplement to its official journal (Harrison, Is. not). The first number contains the texts, in English and French, of nine treaties or engagements which,...

field : Illinois Centennial Commission.)-We have already noticed the fifth and last volume of this elaborate history of Illinois, written to celebrate the centenary of its...

Parrott (Nelson, 3s. 6d. a volume), is a useful little book, which has been well planned and shows careful attention to detail. It is to be completed in ten volumes, appearing...

to the Ministry of Health (Stationery Office, 3s. Gd. net) contains much important matter. We may mention Dr. Buchanan's report on epidemics-especially the typhus plague in...

of Lovelace. (Christophers. 10s. 6d. net).-The late Lord Lovelace was the son of Ada Byron, the poet's only legitimate child, who married the first Lord Lovelace in 1834 and...

scheme for finding work for ex-Service men has issued a new pamphlet, The Employment of Disabled Sailors and Soldiers, explaining the origin and progress of the scheme, and...