4 MAY 1918, Page 2

It was announced on Wednesday that - Mr. Duke, after his

brief and calamitous term of office as Chief Secretary for Ireland, had been appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in the room of Sir Charles Swinfen Eady, who was promoted to succeed Lord Cozens-Hardy as Master of the Rolls. Fortunately for the Court of Appeal, Mr. Duke has always shown himselt to be far better as a lawyer than he is as a politician. It is only fair to add that the Cabinet must share with Mr. Duke the blame far the results of his excessive leniency to-the Sinn Fein traitors during-the past year. If the-law had been firmly enforced, Ireland would not be in such-a deplorable condition.