The Upper House on Thursday, July 2nd, discussed the melancholy
subject of the hardships of the Irish ;loyalists. Lord Selborne introduced the subject, con- :fining himself to sufferings and losses incurred after the truce of July, 1921. Lord Salisbury, speaking for the Government, could offer little satisfaction. He was naturally anxious to say nothing offensive of the Free State Government, whose difficulties he probably under stands better than the general public, and yet he was evidently loath to saddle the British Government with undeserved responsibilities over and above those that we have already shouldered. The business was compli- cated by the force used on the loyalist side, including damage done by British troops for which we were bound to pay, though it gave the impression that we com- pensated our enemies rather than our friends when both suffered by lawlessness. He offered to let any trusted representative of the loyalists see all the papers at the Colonial Office.
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