The Admiralty answer is that the speed of the passenger
vessels is their best protection, and that they are safer when alone than when being convoyed. Whatever may be the justice or otherwise of this defence, the last people who have the right to make a complaint of being inadequately protected against Germany are the people who refuse to lift a finger to help to defeat Germany. A few brilliant Sinn Feiners have been suggesting, as might have been expected, that the British Government are really responsible for the sinking of the ' Leinster: We read that at a meeting of the Blaokrock Council, when a resolution condemning the outrage was passed, one member wanted the Council " to put the saddle on the right horse first" We note that the same member subsequently complained that another member had " hit him on the ear." Whether there was any causal oonnexion between these two facts we do not know, but we venture to hope that there was.
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