14 AUGUST 1920, Page 2

Dr. Mannix, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, who has

been conducting a violent anti-British campaign in America, was taken out of the liner ' Baltic ' and landed at Penzance on Monday by the destroyer Wivern.' The Sinn Fein demonstration arranged 'for this prelate at Liverpool was thus frustrated. He has been forbidden to visit Liverpool, Manchester, or Glasgow, or to go to Ireland. Inasmuch as Dr. Mannix professes himself an open enemy of the British Empire, he cannot reasonably complain of these slight restrictions on his movements. There is, after all, no reason.why a Roman Catholic priest should be free to talk treason which would render a layman liable to prosecution. Toleration is one thing : licence is another.