The Military Court of Inquiry has issued its report on
the Mallow affair. It will be remembered that Captain King, an inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary, was walking with his wife when they were fired upon near the railway station. They were both wounded, and Mrs. King died shortly afterwards. In the House of Commons extraordinary stories were told to the detriment of the Crown forces. Labour Members said that barbarous reprisals had been carried out by the Black-and-Tans ; that railwaymen had been beaten unmercifully ; that they were told to run away, and that as they ran they had been shot down like dogs, and that three of them had been thus killed ; that the Black-and-Tans had broken into the railway refreshment room, looted it and fired off their rifles promiscuously, and so on and so forth These stories very nearly led to a British railway strike "to protect the Irish railway workers."
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