In the House of Lords on Monday the Lord Chancellor
moved the second reading of the Criminal Injuries (Ireland) Bill. He explained that the objeetwas to secure that in the case of con- stables, servants, and officers of the law in Ireland there should be compensation for injuries or death. Proclamations of a most violent character had been issued in thousands by the Sinn Feiners declaring the South Riding of Tipperary a military area. One of the announcements published by the Sinn Feiners was that any policeman found within that area should be deemed to have forfeited his life." There were also directions for storming and bombing barracks. A Sinn Fein newspaper was being widely circulated in which it was advocated that the state of war in Ireland should be perpetuated, and so far it had been impossible to find out where this newspaper was printed.
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