28 AUGUST 1920, Page 3

A Sinn Fein gang went to Lisburn on Sunday and

murdered District Inspector Swanzy, who had recently been transferred from Cork to Ulster. This foul crime in a Protestant town infuriated the inhabitants, who at once took reprisals on the leading Shin Feiners -of Lisburn, beating them and burning their houses. On Monday the Protestant working men decided not to work with adherents of Sinn Fein. Incidents such as this show the folly of supposing that the Irish Republican Brother- hood, which dominates Sinn Fein, wishes to conciliate Ulster or even to tolerate Protestantism in Ireland. Its object is rather to provoke the Ulster Protestants to civil war.