Shortly after OA lanatok troops visited Mr. MacCurtain's house in
the course of an inquiry which had nothing to do with the murder, and which was made in ignorance of the fact that murder had been committed. The visit became the pretext for an extraordinary outburst of indignation on the part of Sinn Feiners, who talked about brutal soldiers who would not even respect the euffering of a bereaved household. If soldiers had never gone near the house, there would no doubt have been ars equal outcry against the malicious English, who did not even take the trouble to try to track down the murderers of a Shin .Fein leader. The Sinn Fein attitude is indeed one of the most sinister signs in the present situation in Ireland. The Sinn Fein and Nationalist newspapers groan with horror and grief at the murder of a Sinn Feiner, which with perverse ingenuity they sanehow attribute to British rule ; but one looks in vain for rillse bestowal of the least sympathy on the constables who are loilag 'steadily exterminated, and upon the innumerable innocent lealettns who tremble in their beds at night, not knowing when !nuked men may descend upon their houses to kill or to threaten.
