13 MARCH 1920, Page 3

Mr. Charles Diamond, proprietor of the Catholic Herald, was sentenced

at the Old Bailey on Tuesday to six months' im- prisonment for writing and publishing an article entitled " Killing No Murder," in reference to the attompt.to assassinate Lord French. He said in the course of tho article :-

"There are Irishmen who consider that a suite of war exists between themselves and their oppressors. They too kill. Is that killing murder ? It depends. Think it over. French has escaped this time. Will he always escape ? "

The jury found that the article solicited others to commit murder, and Mr. Justice Coleridge tslId the prisoner that he was dishonest in asserting that he did not mean what his words clearly implied.