“Sorrowing mothers”
Sir, —Unless you have information not yet published, the caption under this photograph printed on March 24 is, at best, grossly false reporting. To my knowledge it has not been established that the I.R.A. was in any way connected with the shooting of three foreign soldiers in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In fact, there was a flat denial of any connection with it. Your statement that I.R.A. gunmen “murdered” these soldiers is required to be substantiated by proof. When British soldiers are shot “The Press” cries “Murder.” When Irishmen are. shot they are referred to as “incidents.”— Yours, etc., SHADES OF CONNOLLY. March 25, 1971. [We were at fault in accepting unquestioningly the caption supplied with the picture from a leading London photographic agency. The caption would more correctly have read: “. . . believed to have been murdered by I.R.A. gunmen.”]
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32566, 27 March 1971, Page 18
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