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As a matter of fact the death-sentence on these prisoners

had been commuted before the raids occurred. This may or may not have been known by the raiders. But what an extraordinary argument for Mr. Collins to adopt—that emotion at the thought of murderers being executed could be soothed away by more violence and a few more murders in Ulster I The three prisoners at Londonderry had been found guilty of an appallingly bar- barons crime. They throttled to death two policemen. But whatever may be the excuses made for the raids it is impossible not to connect them ultimately with the deplorable uncertainty into which Mr. Lloyd George has plunged the whole quistion

of the Ulster boundaries. That question upon which there need never have been any doubt is the supremo evil of the moment.

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