1 MAY 1920, page 2

What Word Shall We Apply To The Grievances Of Those

heroic policemen who in carrying out their duty tramp along lonely roads with a certain expectation of sooner or later being shot from behind a hedge ? What word shall we apply......

In Any Case It Seems To Rut That The Complaints

of those whose houses have been raided by the Government are quite dispropor- tionate to the injury done. We have 'read in the Daily News, for example, articles by Mr. Erskine......

After Criticizing The Vacillation Of The Government In...

of the Mountjoy prisoners, Lord Robert Cecil expressed the belief that the raids on houses of those who were suspected of rebellion had been most unwisely cionceived and......

When The House Of Lords Considered The Matrimonial Cameo...

in Committee on Tuesday, attempts were made to reduce the number of grounds on which divorce might be granted. The House insisted on "incurable insanity" as a ground for divorce......

Lord Robert Cecil Summed Up His Criticisms By Expressing His

belief that the enforcement of the ordinary criminal law would be quite enough if it really was enforced. In his view, there was "no need for exceptional powers." He did not......

The House Of Lords On Friday Week Rejected, By A

majority of one, Lord Balfour of Burleigh's Bill to prevent "dumping." The Government, whose own Bill on somewhat similar lines was abandoned last Session, withheld their......

The House Of Commons On Friday Week, By A Majority

of six, gave a second reading to Mr. A. M. Samuel's Trade Union Ballot Bill, which would permit—but not compel—any_ Union to take an independent and secret ballot of its members......

Meanwhile The Scenes Outside Mountjoy Prison A Fortnight...

being reproduced at Wormwood Scrubs, where several Irish prisoners are interned. Irishmen resident in England and no doubt others who sympathize with Shut Fein and what it......

The Papers This Week Have Contained Forecasts Of The Recom-

mendations of the Speaker's Conference on Federal Devolution. The letter from the Speaker to the Prime Minister will contain two separate schemes as well as various reservations......

In Many Districts Not Only Was The Criminal Law In

abeyance but the civil law also. Sinn Fein Courts had been set up. One or two towns were wholly in the hands of self-chosen Committees, which ruled despotically and would not......

The Question Was Again Raised In The House On Wednesday

when Mr. T. P. O'Connor, on a motion for the adjournment, sought to justify the impudent threat of some Irish dock labourers at Liverpool and Glasgow to hold up British shipping......

On Monday In The House Of Commons Lord Robert Cecil

described the appalling state of Ireland on a motion for the adjournment. The maintenance of the law, he said, was what distinguished the imperfect civilization of the Middle......