2 APRIL 1910, Page 3

Mr. Lloyd George's statement that scores of thousands of crofting

families had been swept clean away to make deer forests for a few rich plutocrats is dealt with in Monday's Times. "Western Highlands" writes to point out that the Royal Commissioners of 1883 declared that, with one exception of dubious date and history, they had not any evidence established before them of evictions for the purpose of deer forests, and asserts that since that date there have been no clearances of crofters for that. purpose. Finally, Mr. Lloyd George's account of the evictions in Wales is traversed by Mrs. Nichol], the daughter of the late Mr. Dillwyn, in the Standard of yesterday week.