TREATMENT OF PROTESTANT FARMERS IN SOUTHERN IRELAND.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Being a reader of the Spectator, may I ask if you would kindly give me space to let the English people know the truth about how Protestant farmers are treated in Southern Ireland ? I am one who resides in Co. Cork, and can testify to the following. There has been going on for the past two years in the area in which I reside constant robbery of cattle and sheep, also money. In a single night in Bandon area the homes of eight Protestant farmers were visited by masked and armed men who demanded money, and got it in almost every case. There have been hundreds of pounds' worth of cattle and sheep stolen. I am a sufferer to the tune of £100, I calculate. Quite recently nine cattle were stolen off the land of one farmer, and a few days previously nine from his neighbour. One night this week ten sheep from yet another. This is going on week after week, and in every case a Protestant farmer is the victim of these bands of robbers. The Free State Government will not give compensation for cattle thus stolen. I claim that Protestants, if not protected by the State, are as an alternative entitled to compensation. I know many such farmers will sell out and leave the country, it being made quite impossible to reside in.
I trust, Sir, you will publish this in your next issue, when I hope it will be taken up by some M.P.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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