6 OCTOBER 1917, Page 3

The Trams's Aurnal of last Saturday published a letter from

the Bishop of Eillalee wKeh makes one reflect wonderingly on the nature of the Censorship in Ireland :—

" It is horrible," writes the Bishop, " that the country has to stand silently by listening to the moans of the decent young Irish boys who are being slowly done to death behind the walls of Mount- joy Prison by brutal tyrants; or to see them thrown in their lest gasp out to die like doge outside the jail door. . . . Their deaths will sanctify them in the memory of Ireland and surround their heartless torturers with inextinguishable hatred and ignominy. . The world sees already. in these hideous atrocities what the triumph of English culture means for small nationalities."