§ 101. Sir JOHN LONSDALEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland the total number of outrages reported to the police for the county of Clare since 1st January, 1910; the number in which firearms were used; the number of cases of malicious injury and threatening notices; and the number of persons who, during the period named, have received special police protection?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe total number of serious offences reported to the police in county Clare from 1st January, 1910, to 31st October, 1912, was 457, in fifty-four of which firearms were used. There were thirty-two cases of injury to property, and 125 of threatening letters or notices. The number of persons receiving protection in the county during the period mentioned varied from time to time, but on the 1st January, 1910, the number was seventy-one, and on 30th September, 1912, it was sixty.
§ Mr. FLAVINCan the right hon. Gentleman give us the number of serious offences in the city of Belfast for the same period?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI have no figures