1 MAY 1920, Page 2

What word shall we apply to the grievances of those

heroic policemen who in carrying out their duty tramp along lonely roads with a certain expectation of sooner or later being shot from behind a hedge ? What word shall we apply to those who find their business being surely ruined, but who are warned that they will be dead men if they so much as raise a finger or utter s syllable to stop the atrocities and iniquities which are being Jelly committed ? It was in the course of his military duties, lesigned to prevent the unspeakable horrors of the kind we have mentioned, that the ill-mannered young officer dropped cigarette- ash upon the carpet. If the atrocities had not been committed, the cigarette-ash would not have been dropped.