20 MARCH 1920, Page 9

[To THE EDITOR. or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,—In your very-much-to-the-point

article on the above you say : " What, we should like to know, are the soldiers doing ? . . . If the tr000ps in Ireland are not there to keep order, what are they there for ? " The Irish Times asks the same question; so does every one that troubles to think on the question at all It may be difficult to prevent isolated murders, but these sieges of police barracks could certainly be stopped. What about a system somewhat similar to Lord Kitchener's in South Africa—blockhouses at suitable points, especially near to the police barracks, armed motor-cars at night, &a ? How long are the police to bear the present state of things P—I am, Sir,