31 MAY 1919, Page 2

Although not a word can be said in palliation of

the folly of some of the leaders of the police, see cannot help feeling very strongly that the pollee ought to have received months ago the better pay and conditions they were promised. Why has there been all this delay ? The Police Foroe should be paid so highly and treated so well that they are quite- above ordinary industrial grievances. It cannot be expected that on any other terms will they forfeit the rights of ordinary workmen, or allow themselves to be the unquestioning agent of any Government. It is most unfortunate that, as things have turned out, what ought to have been done by the Government spontaneously seems to have been done under threats.