§ MR. WALTER LONG (Dublin, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will indicate the districts in Ireland in which additional forces of constabulary are employed, stating the names of districts, counties in which situate, total number of additional police employed, and the circumstances under which, in the case of each such district, it was considered necessary to supplement the ordinary police establishment.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) Additional forces of constabulary are employed as follows:—County Clare—Districts of Ennis, Corofin, Tulla, and Six mile bridge: one head constable and sixty-five men of the reserve force. County Cork, E. R.—Districts of Newmarket and Midleton: seven men of the reserve. Counties Leitrim and Cavan—Districts of Carrick-on-Shannon and Manorhamilton: twenty-two men of the Reserve. County Gal-way, E. R.—District of Athenry: thirty-five men of the Reserve. County Roscommon—Districts of Strokestown and Castlerea: one district inspector, two head constables, eighty-three men of the Reserve, and fifty men from other counties. King's County—District of Parsonstown: one district inspector and twenty-five men of the Reserve. In all these cases the augmentation of the local police force was necessitated by the disturbed state of the district.