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In Belfast on Monday Mr. W. J. Twaddell, who represented

West Belfast in the Northern Parliament, was shot dead. Sir

James Craig issued an appeal to tho public to refrain from retaliation. While, however, most rightly denouncing private acts of revenge, Sir James Craig proceeded promptly on the principle that his Government must keep order by all possible means or else go under. He was faced with the possibility, indeed with the probability, that if he did not assert the power of the Government to keep order, Northern Ireland would 'rapidly become like South Ireland. Such a result is, of course, exactly what the Republicans are trying to bring about. Sit James Craig therefore proclaimed the LR.A. and other similar organizations as illegal bodies in the Six Counties.

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