26 FEBRUARY 1921, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ON Monday in the House of Commons Captain Wedgwood Benn moved an amendment to the Address in order to call attention to the condition of Ireland. He made a strong personal attack upon Sir Hamar Greenwood. Sir Hamar Greenwood replied at considerable length and with spirit. He carried war into the camp of the Independent Liberals, declared that Judge Bodkin's startling report about unauthorized reprisals by the forces of the Crown was highly prejudiced, denounced the pamphlets of the " Peace in Ireland League " which he said were doing us much harm abroad and prolonging the trouble in Ireland, and finally quoted from a document captured last Saturday which proved that the Irish Republicans had extensive plans for destruction and murder in England. This last was a really terrible revelation, and we wonder it did not create much more indignation.