It is at last announced from Dublin Castle that if
the attacks on the mails continue—with the evident connivance of the Nationalist population—the postal services will be curtailed or stopped in the districts which are affected. The Chief Secretary points out that the public will suffer, as the Govern- ment mails do not go through the post. Yet the Government ought clearly to be able to protect the mail service. It is said that the Government will require the Irish railway companies to carry troops and police, or lose their subsidies. If the Nationalist railwaymen come out on strike, as they threaten to do, it should not be impossible to find men to replace them. At Armagh on Monday a signalman who refused to receive a troop-train was promptly arrested by the officer in command and taken away in custody. It would be well if this example were followed, inasmuch as the Nationalist railwaymen by obstructing the troops and police are levying war against the Crown just as much as their friends who use rifles and bombs.
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