(To THE EDITOR OF TEE " EMT/1'0109
Sox,—The last issue of the Spectator affords another illustration of the manner in which the pen of the slanderer is used in the campaign against the Irish people, for surely such a series of misstatements dealing with the recent deplorable happenings in Ireland has rarely been packed in ED small a compass. You attempt to justify the pogrom at Croke Park by a statement that the military were fired upon outside the ground, yet, as we know, not a single soldier, regular or irregular, was hit, while all the fatalities occurred within the football field, and a number of credible witnesses have testified that not a shot was fired at the military either before or after the massacre. You are also making a great demand on the credulity of your readers when you state that a priest was murdered by Sinn Feiners, and that the two men acquitted at the court martial were also shot by the same people. It is to be hoped that such a travesty of the facts will not impose even on an intelligent child. Irishmen do not murder their own priests, and all the available evidence goes to prove that the two acquitted men met their deaths at the hands of the forces of the Crown. As regards the barrack-room tragedy, perhaps you have dis- covered by this time that one of the victims at least was a liarmleas local official who had no connexion whatever with ...Ann Fein. Worst of all perhaps is tho deliberate falsehoods of which you are guilty in connexion with the Devlin incident in the House of Commons. All the world knows that Mr. Devlin was struck by a Member who subsequently apologised for his conduct, but on this point you are silent, and you haeo no words of condemnation for the honourable Members elm shouted "Kill him I" when Mr. Devlin got up to ask a perfectly natural question, and one, moreover, which it was his duty to put. If you have any sense of fairness, pray turn your atten- tion to such abominable crimes as the shooting of a pregnant woman, with a baby in her arms, by the roadside, in which case the doctor who attended the unfortunate creature certified that the bullet was fired at close range, or to the conduct of the uniformed men who, laden with all the implements of the incendiary and the burglar, sally forth night after night to sack and destroy some unfortunate town or village, driving women and children to the fields or bogs in terror of their
liven—I am, Sir, dc, EDAIUND MACDONALD. 34 Norfolk House Road, Streatham.
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