19 APRIL 1919, Page 3

We are glad to know that the Bill has become

law. The Royal Irish Constabulary are brave and splendid servants of the public interest. When they are injured or killed in Ireland in her present condition there ought of course to be compensation, just as mush as in the ease of a soldier on active service. The Constabulary are indeed on active service in every sense of the word. And in some ways their duties are even more trying than those of a soldier, for instead of having the sense of support and the exhilaration which come from working among a mass of men, they have to patrol lonely districts and dark lanes, very often quite alone, in the expectation that they may be shot at any moment from behind a hedge or from a darkened window.