18 DECEMBER 1920, Page 2

Commander Kenworthy moved the adjournment of the House en Monday

to call attention to the Cork fires, and actually quoted

a letter from an unnamed priest as incontrovertible evidence against the forces of the Crown. The Chief Secretary said that he did not believe that the police started the fires. The Sinn Fein assertion that there had been great loss of life was wholly untrue, though one woman who was looting had been shot. The houses which were first set on fire did not belong to Sinn Feiners. When the firemen were exhausted, the troops and police helped to extinguish the flames. The Chief Secretary rightly emphasized the fact that the military and-police authori- ties in Ireland had comdemned the burning of houses by way of reprisals.