27 NOVEMBER 1920, Page 2

The temper of the Sinn Feiners is illustrated by a

letter captured last week among the papers of the "Republican Chief of Staff," and read in the House on Thursday, November 18th, by the Chief Secretary. In this letter the "Republican Commander-in-Chief" suggested to his accomplice ways and means of spreading typhoid fever among the British troops and glanders among their horses by contaminating the milk and the oats. It was characteristic of Mr. Devlin to get up in the House and denounce the Chief Secretary's statement as "a lie," instead of expressing astonishment and regret that any Irishmen should be capable of such dastardly tricks. The Slim Fein leaders, of course, borrowed the idea from their German friends who applied it more than once during the war.