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New Zealand Tablet, 13 June 1918, Page 18

Truth, in an editorial lately, says: — The "competent military authority" who signed the order prohibiting meetings and processions in Belfast and the district on St. Patrick's Day, was Brigadier-General Hackett-Pain, Commanding Northern District Irish Command. The selection of this particular officer for this particular command is an illustration of what the Prime Minister has characterised as. the monstrous methods of the War Office in Ireland. Before the war Bngadier-General Hackett-Pain was chief of the staff of the Ulster rebel force which was illegally organised and drilled and armed (with rifles from Germany) for the purpose of resisting his Majesty's forces. It is said that the old poacher makes the best gamekeeper but still remembrance of the example this competent military authority once set must somewhat diminish the weight of the precepts he now addresses to Sinn Seiners.