CONDITIONS IN IRELAND.
[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I know nothing of Lady Sykes, nor do I care to ask what her motives may have been in launching such an indictment of the Government's present policy in Ireland upon a credulous English public. No doubt before doing so she at least com- municated with the various officers concerned, and afforded them an opportunity of giving their version of the deeds she records. We who for months past have been living under a reign of terror in Ireland, comparable only to that which existed at the time of the French Revolution, or to that which now exists under the Bolshevist regime in Russia. have a very different story to tell. It was the advent of the Auxiliary Police that first brought a ray of light to a vast though silent multitude of loyal subjects of the King, who for so long had seen murder and every form of crime stalk the land unpunished'
and unchecked. The hope was then revived, for which the presence of the Auxiliary Police is the only guarantee that criminals will once more be punished and the elementary conditions of civilization again. restored.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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