§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been directed to the fact that the condition of affairs prevailing over parts of Ireland, manifested by the increased number of occasions on which firearms have been used in the perpetration of agrarian crimes during the past three years, is reflected also in the statistics of similar crimes of a non-agrarian character; and will he state whether it is proposed to place continued reliance upon the provision of the ordinary law in the expectation that an improved condition of affairs will result in this respect.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe facts are as stated As regards the concluding paragraph of the Question I would refer the hon. member to my reply to a somewhat similar Question asked by him yesterday.
§ MR. FLYNNIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that in reference to crimes of a 762 non-agrarian character a learned Recorder drew attention to their serious increase and that was in the City of London and not in Ireland?
CAPTAIN CRAIGIs it intended by the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues to make these outbreaks the subject of pictorial placards by the Liberal Publication Department?
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)Do the crimes of a non-agrarian character include the threatening letter written by the hon. Member for North Armagh to Mr. Bailey and read out in this House?
§ [No Answer was returned.]