§ MR. KENDAL O'BRIENI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland is he aware that the extra police were withdrawn from Barnane, near Templemore, county Tipperary, in face of the allegation that about six weeks ago a window was smashed in daylight in the house of George Thompson, for whose protection those extra constabulary-men had been brought there; is he aware that George Thompson goes in day after day to Templemore doing his business unaccompanied by police; and under the circumstances will he direct that an open investigation be held in regard to the breaking of Mr. Thompson's window.
§ MR. WALTER LONGThe extra police were withdrawn in August, 1903, and will be returned to the district should the local responsible authorities consider such a step necessary. The police are pursuing their inquiries, and the reply to the concluding inquiry is in the negative.