REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14130, 5 July 1916, Page 5

REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION.

THE GOVERNMENT'S SUPINENESS

(United Service.)

London, July 3

The report of Lord Hardinge.'s Commission to inquire into the causes of the Sinn Fein rebellion states thab the importation of arms and toleration of drilling of large bodies, first in Ulster and then elsewhere, created conditions rendering possible the recent troubles. Failure to suppress sedition and the drilling of forces by men who declared they would welcome tho King's enemies, developed the belief: that the Government would not suppress sedition. This was the immediate cause of the outbreak. The Government had abundant material on which it could have acted long before the loaders themselves

the rising.