Sinister glimpses of the uses to which the Sinn Feiners
put their procrastination have meanwhile been published. The Morning Post of Monday, commenting on Mr. Michael Collins's assertion that the Sinn Feiners have not broken the truce, says that between July 11th and August 27th ten attacks were made on the Crown forces. Moreover, though the Sinn Feiners undertook to prohibit the use of arms, the use of arms has been reported in over twenty cases ; and though they promised to cease military manoeuvres of all kinds, the Morning Post has knowledge of fifteen cases of military manoeuvres since the truce began. The Sinn Feiners promised yet again to abstain from interference with public or private property, but the Morning Post says it has a list of seventy-five cases in which people have been relieved of both goods and money. " The rebels are openly training in many centres ; they are holding military reviews ; they are seizing motor-cars, traps, and horses ; they are collecting what they call taxes by force ; they are picking quarrels with unarmed soldiers," &a.
