15 JULY 1922, Page 1

Speaking at Belfast on Wednesday, Mr. R. J. Lynn insisted

on the essential need for suppressing crime and disorder in the North. We are glad to know that considerable progress has been mode within the last few days towards preventing the disgraceful scenes of murder and riot in Belfast. Mr. Lynn's speech was exactly what it ought to have been and what we should have expected. How different from the wicked and bigoted inflammatory nonsense that is falsely put into the mouth of the loyalist representatives of Belfast ! Mr. Lynn said that the Orange Institution could Copt only one course and that was to denounce crime " no mWr who the criminal might be."