[To THE Enrroa OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—As Hon. Secretary
of the Truth About Ireland League, I am receiving an increasing number of most piteous appeals for help from ruined Protestant and loyalist refugees from Southern Ireland. The League is doing its best to help these homeless people, and the crowded meetings held by me have given ample proof of the widespread sympathy and effective help that is offered to the refugees when once the public is aroused to the facts and tb the realization of the pitiable condi- tion which the loyalist refugees- are now in. May I therefore announce through your columns that I will, whenever possible. send speakers well acquainted with Irish affairs to assist at meetings organized by those in sympathy with these unfor- tunate Protestants and loyalists? Whenever practicable I will also send one or more loyalists to tell their own stories, which
for sheer horror it would be difficult to equal in modern history.
At the present time, and ever since the withdrawal of the police after tho truce, there has been an organized and unop- posed campaign of murder, robbery, and outrage carried on against these defenceless people. Many of them are flying to this country absolutely destitute after having everything they possess in the world taken from them by the Sinn Feiners. My heart is nearly broken by the awful tales of persecution that are brought to me. Some of the sufferers whose cases are before me now have had their husbands or children slaughtered before their eyes. All are ruined, and some are very nearly insane in consequence of the horrors they have witnessed. Remember that these people have suffered all this simply because they are loyalists. I urge all those who pity these unfortunate people to organize meetings to help my League in the great work of making the truth known, meetings to which, as I say, I will send speakers whenever possible. All communications and sub- scriptions to the Truth About Ireland League (of which Colonel Sir Alexander Sprot, Bart., C.M.G., ALP., is Hon. Treasurer) should be addressed to me at 52 Carlisle Mansions, West- minster, S.W. 1.—I am, Sir, &c., (Mns.) A. C. STUART M.ENZIES.
The Truth About Ireland League, 52 Carlisle Mansions, Westminster,
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