22 APRIL 1922, Page 14

MISREPRESENTATION ABOUT IRELAND.

[To ME EDITOR or THE SPECI1TOX"3

SIR,—A8 an instance of the misrepresentation which goes on ubroad, I would just quote from the Diamond Fields Advertiser, Kimberley: of February 20th last, the following :—" Mr. Collins makes a strong protest against the campaign of slander in connexion with the troubles in Ulster, and declares the kid- nappings were the inevitable sequel to provocations." I would ask your readers to post on their copies of the Spectator to friends abroad. It would be well worth the postage to have the correct information supplied abroad, and at the same time ask them to circulate it amongst their neighbours. I may say I already send three copies of the Spectator regularly to America, and I know these have tended, in addition to en- lightening our friends on the Irish question, to increase the good will between America and Britain.—I am, Sir, &c.,