THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT’S DAILY LIST OF IRISH OUTRAGES.

New Zealand Tablet, 5 August 1920, Page 29

THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT’S DAILY LIST OF IRISH OUTRAGES.

The official journalists attached to the English' Military Govemm(ent in Ireland compile and issue every morning a list of Irish “outrages.” . The “outrages” thus saddled upon the nation comprise cases of ordinary petty larceny and other offences inseparable from the : normal life of any people (says the NorthWest Review, Winnipeg, Canada). These “outrages” the, English press are being asked to publish prominentiy so that they may be noticed by foreign journalists, and in that way England be enabled to spread her lying propaganda over the world without any expense to herself. J £{ The honesty used in the preparation of these lists or outrages” is evident from the following: The lists published up to date contain reports of several cases of burglary. Burglaries have been fre-

quent in Dublin and other Irish .cities since the end of the war, and in the majority of cases those "arrested for these qffences have proved to be ex-members of the British Army. ' - Shooting and wounding policemen, is another item frequently mentioned in these lists. One man has been convicted in Ireland of the shooting of a policeman. He was an ex-member of the British Army, Four men were arrested on May 7 at Derry City for shooting a policeman. The four were ex-members of the British Army. - ' ‘ These are specimens of . the outrages, which although committed by its own ex-servants, the British Government uses as propaganda in order that their publication may create in other countries the impression that the people of Ireland are lawless and criminal, and that their courageous struggle for national independence is simply a series ,of crimes.