CAPTAIN CRAIGI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the Riverstown branch of the United Irish League has instituted a reign of terror, intimidation, and boycotting, directed against the Protestant minority in that neighbourhood; that they are refused the bare necessaries of life, their horses cannot be shod, their milk cannot be conveyed to the creameries, they cannot obtain labourers to work the land or herds to guard their cattle; and whether, seeing that appeals made to the Executive for protection have proved futile, he will say what steps he proposes to take to safeguard the lives and property of the law-abiding Protestant minority in the Riverstown district.
§ MR. CHERRYThe statements in the Question are a somewhat exaggerated account of the boycotting which, according to my information, recently prevailed 1414 in the neighbourhood referred to. A prosecution has been instituted, and I would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the reply given by my right hon. frend the Chief Secretary to a similar Question asked yesterday by the hon. Member for Mid Armagh.
§ MR. CHERRYAt the suit of the Government, on my direction.