LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE IRISH FREE STATE AND THE LOYALISTS.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I call attention to the final act in the drama of the sufferings of many Irish Loyalists. By the terms of the Compensation Bill, which has passed the Lower. House of the Free State Parliament, the amount of compensation payable in cash is limited to 12,000, and the balance is to be paid in securities issued on such terms as to repayment and interest as the Minister of Finance and the Parliament may deem fit. With a deficit of £20,000,000 on this year's Budget and the country in the state it is, the proposal savours more of confisca- tion than compensation. Many of these poor people, in addition to having had their houses burnt, have received no rents for two years, and have been subjected to many
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