THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FACTS IN IRELAND. ITo THE EDITOR
or ME " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With reference to your observations in the Spectator of May 7th as to the extraordinary negligence of the Government in propaganda work, a striking instance of the truth of your remarks was demonstrated in the writer's immediate neigh- bourhood. On the evening of April 30th three beautiful country residences belonging to Protestant Unionists, within six miles of each other, were burned to the ground by gangs of Sinn Feiners, armed and disguised. In two cases the occupants were defenceless women, who escaped with their lives, and but little • besides, being given only a few minutes to " clear out." The leading newspapers, both English and Irish, took not the slightest notice of these events. The Morning Post alone had a short paragraph describing the Earl of Listowel's magnificent residence and the misfortune of its destruction, but the two smaller houses were never even referred to. To the ruined householders such disregard of their sufferings seems inex- plicable. The Government has ceased, apparently, to be able to protect either the lives or property of its loyal Irish subjects, but it is adding "insult to injury" if their ghastly wrongs and miseries are passed over as being too insignificant to be worthy of a few lines of print.—I am, Sir, &c., Sournsaisza.
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