The Report is furnished with appendices giving extracts from police
documents and other papers, and photographs of destroyed property. " We believe," say the writers, " that the evidence we have been able to obtain is more than sufficient to justify the strongest condemnation of the policy of the Government." Presently it is admitted that it was " difficult or impossible " to obtain evidence about reprisals " owing to the atmosphere of terrorism." The Labour representatives apparently drew their information from those who were only too ready to give the sort of information which the Labour representatives required. They went to Ireland with strong prejudices against the Government, and in spite of the difficulty of obtaining evidence werthy of the name in Ireland, they returned with their prejudices fully confirmed. Perhaps that was only to be expected.
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