"I consider it a loathsome alliance," continued Sir Hamer Greenwood,
"between persons in this House and men whose hands are red with blood." Sir Hamar Greenwood pointed out that the total number of Creameries was 710, of which it was alleged that 41 had been damaged or destroyed. Creameries had sometimes been the rendezvcrea of the Republican Army. One of them had actually been used as an ambush for the destruction of the police. From the start he had done his best to prevent reprisals, and he was succeeding. After the fourteen terrible murders in Dublin lait Sunday not a pane of glass had been broken by the soldiers or police in spite of the appalling provo- cation. "How many of us," he asked, "could have stood the strain?" As for the finances of the Sum Feiners a sum of £7,000 had been spent on establishing a Headquarters for the Republican Army. 13000 had been spent in Scotland on pur- chasing arms. Plans had been discovered, most carefully drawn up by the agents of Sinn Fein, for the destruction of the power- houses and docks both at Manchester and Liverpool.
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