The Morning Post, which has rendered public services of great
value in keeping track of documents bearing on the Irish rebellion and in making them public, has added to its list of services by calling attention, on Monday, to the Irish Roman Catholic propaganda in Franco and Belgium. A pamphlet which has come into the hands of the Morning Post is entitled The Unanimous Declaration of the Episcopate of Ireland. It is signed by Cardinal Logue (the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland), the Archbishops of Dublin, Cashel, and Tuam, and by twenty-five bishops. The statements contained in it are presented as the text of the declaration issued at a meeting of the bishops at Maynooth on October 19th. Here is a sricimen passage :— " At the present moment there are murders, raids, firings, and violence of all kinds ; we have evidence—on a scale truly frightful—of innumerable raids and arrests, imprisonments of long duration without judgment, brutal and unjust condem- nationa inflicted by tribunals which neither inspire nor deserve confidence, burning of houses, city halls, factories, and farms, accompanied by destruction of industries leading to misery and famine by men rendered furious by alcohol and whose aim is pillage; seourgings and massacres of civilians—all carried out by Government forces who have established a reign of terror of which one cannot recall the like, and which, in the case of the assassination of the guiltless and the destruction of their goods, is as the atrocities of the Turkish terror or as the excesses of the Red Armies of the Russian Bolsheviks."
