BRITISH JUSTICE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19069, 15 January 1924, Page 5

BRITISH JUSTICE.

SETTLEMENT OF IRISH CLAIMS. UTeou Oub Own Corbkspondent.) LONDON, November 29. Mr I. W. Raymond, Vice-Chairman of the Southern Irish Loyalists Belief Association, delivered an adaress at St. Albans this week. He said he declined to believe that the callous attitude of the English towards their victimised compatriots in Southern Ireland was attributable to other than ignorance of the actual position The Coalition had surrendered the loyalist's to their enemies, and the Government that followed had been too tardy in fulfilling their just obligations to these sufferers. Every month in which settlement of claims was delayed, thousands of claimants were experiencing tho gradual whittling away of their capital. Doles in the way of advances from tho Irish Grants Committee were onlv palliatives. It was a settlement of claims that claimants had a right to demand, and it became an inhuman act not to expedite the settlement of those. The wrongs per petrated must be righted if the fair name of British justice was not to bn sullied for all time. If the Government, shortly to bo elected, were impotent to exorcise pressure on the Free State to do an honourable act, then the obligation rested upon them to accept the responsibility ‘'cirlliwith to see that the hearing of claims already lodged was accelerated, and that other sections of loyalists who had suffered personal losses were honourably and adequately dealt with.