Mr. De Valera's section of the Irish Republican Army con-
tinues to-do as it -pleases, without regard to the Provisional Governmentof the Irish Free State. In Dublin itself, on Friday, April 7th, a large body of men took possession of the Custom Rouse bonded stores and spent some hours in broaching casks of whisky which belonged to Messrs. Dunville, of Belfast. The Free State police took no action. On the previous Wednesday an armed party with a machine-gun went across the Ulster border into Fermanagh and laid an ambush for an Ulster patrol of special police. Three of the seven police were left for dead, and a fourth man was taken across the border and brutally murdered. Though Mr. Collins has officially suspended the boycott of Ulster goods, the I.R.A. continue to hold up trains and to destroy all merchandise from Ulster. Dublin tradesmen haie been warned not to deal with Belfast. The Royal Hibernian Academy, whose building the rebels burned down at Easter, 1916, has been ordered to exclude pictures by Ulster Protestants. There is no limit to the fanatical parochialism of Sinn Fein.
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