My final point is that smokelessness and efficiency invariably walk
hand in hand, and with the Government's clean air proposals must be linked the plea for a further extension of the use of mechanical stokers.—Yours faithfully,
JOHN FOX
Downbartotz, Grand A venue, Hove. 3, Sussex THE IRISH BORDER
SIR,—While I am able to applaud your corre- spondent's description of the Sinn Fein Party, I cannot endorse the rest of his paragraph concerned with Northern Iteland Nationalists and the justification for preventing them from joining with the South.
When the question was first raised as to what territory the area which is now Northern Ireland should embrace, a Boundary Com- mission of three was set up under the neutral chairmanship of Mr. Justice Feetham, of South Africa. The Irish Free State Govern- ment was, of course, represented, and Northern Ireland's representative was appointed by the British Government under a special Act of Parliament. After the Commission had sat for almost a year, a leakage occurred and a fore- cast of its findings appeared in the Morning Post of November 7, 1925. The findings of the Commission, as reported, were distressing to the Dublin Government in that it was said that the North would receive part of North-East Donegal. It was also rumoured at the time that certain sections of Counties Cavan and Monaghan were being considered for inclusion in Northern Ireland.
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