17 MAY 1919, Page 2

Perhaps the best comment upon the whole business of the

Irish- American delegates and the Shut Fein Republic is that supplied by the New York World :— "Americans-are privileged persons. If an English organization were to send representatives to this country or to the Philippines to advocate rebellion or secession from the United States, the American people might reasonably be expected to resent it, but American delegates are permitted to visit Ireland and openly uphold the methods of violence of the Sinn Fainers."