Mr. T. P. O'Connor moved the adjournment of the House
on Thursday, November 4th, to protest—not against the cruel murders of soldiers and policemen in Ireland, but against "the policy of frightfulness" which he attributed to the Government, on what he must have known to be tainted evidence, The Chief Secretary, who was continually interrupted by the Nation- alists, said that alleged cases of reprisals were inquired into, that nine constables were under arrest, and that disciplinary action had been taken against several soldiers. Ire reminded the House at the same time that the atrocious murders committed by the Sinn Feiners naturally exasperated the comrades of the victims—the last one of whom, he mentioned, had served through the Eastern campaigns and was the only son of a poor widow in London. The police, whatever was said about them, would protect the newspaper correspondents. When the murder-gang was stamped out, what were called reprisals would cease.
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