23 JULY 1921, Page 1
That the English supporters of Sinn Fein, persons who never
tire in the work of defaming Ulster, should have found pleasure in the legend and should not have cared to give publicity to the Lord Chancellor's absolute denial wo can well understand, but it is curious that comparatively few of the London newspapers printed the Lord Chancellor's communique, and still fewer of their country contemporaries. Probably tho explanation is a very simple one. The editors and sub-editors concerned said, we suspect, " Why waste print and paper on denying a story which on the face of it is utterly absurd ?"
