But though we think it highly necessary to say this—on
the Resumption that Sir Nevil Macready hue been correctly reported --WI are bound to add that the attitude of the Liberal Press hi England dam not make easy the path of those who believe
in indifferent justice in Ireland and in the restoration of order. In the Liberal Press we read furious diatribes against the black-and-tan police—the police auxiliaries are so called because they wear a black police hat with a khaki uniform, the full police uniform apparently not being yet available-.-but we read hardly a word in denunciation of the cruel and cowardly barbarities committed by the Sinn Feb murder clubs. The Liberal Press tries to enter into the feelings of Sinn Feiners, though that has always been an unfruitful task, but it never tries to enter into the feelings of those who see their friends and their relations shot down one after the other in the dark,. or from behind, or by a revolver which is not withdrawn from the pocket when it is fired. It makes no allowance whatever for the awful strain under which the representatives of the Government live day and night, and which is enough to break down the nerves and judgment of hardened and experienced men, and much more those of young recruits..
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