At one time we were inclined to think that Mr.
Lloyd George would not lose much by delay in dealing with Shin Fein, but we are bound to say in the light of these very deliberate breaches of the truce that Mr. Lloyd George must on no account be allowed to spin out the negotiations unless he can definitely insist upon the truce being respected. Otherwise we shall clearly be asked to yield again to the old argument of the " accomplished fact." The Lord Mayor of Cork must be either singularly ignorant of what is happening, or singularly regard- less of the meaning of the trace terms which we have quoted, for we see that in a recent speech he declared that the truce had been " honourably observed " by the Irish Republican army, and that it was " impossible to point out the smallest incident in which its conditions had been violated."
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