§ MR. J. P. FARRELL (Longford, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that, at the last monthly petty sessions court in Newtownforbes, county Longford, which is supposed to be the centre of agrarian discontent in county Longford, there were only three small cases for hearing, not one of which was for any agrarian offence; and will he, in these circumstances, now direct a reduction of the extra police force engaged there in protection duty.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The fact is as stated in the first part of the Question, but it is also the fact that there is a good deal of boycotting in the locality, and while this remains so the extra force cannot be reduced.