Outspoken statements regarding Sinn Fein terrorism are made by "An Irish Catholic,' whose letter appears in the "Church Times" of October 1. He writes:—~ Sir,—Will you allow an Irish journalist, with several years' experience in Britain and America, to answer Mr. Stockley's letter which appeared in your issue of September 10? It hag only just reached me in Cork. I came to Ireland at Easter, 1916, after the rebellion, a supporter of Sinn Fein, and since that date I have seen it at close quarters.
Mr. Stockley says there have been some fifty murders committed by "uniformed men," but does not particularize. Any one reading the phrase would conclude that they were. or soldiers, whereas they are er one nor the other, but Sinn Feiners, wearing stolen uniforms, I have often seen men whom I knew to be Sinn Feiners in uniform. They have a plentiful supply of them, and many a crime has been attributed to the R.LC. or the soldiers which was really committed by Sinn Fein. The latter have also a good supply of service rifles and revolvers, as well as American and German weapons.
"Proor"' a ta Sinn Fein.
For most of their crimes they use service weapons and cartridges, his, of course, is "proof" that imes were committed by the R.LC. or the soldiers.
There were uniform men among the gang who murdered the jate Lord Mayor of Cork, ana they used service rifles, but they were all Sinn Feiners, He was murdered by order of Sinn Fein, because, though he was himself a Sinn Feiner, he opposed the campaign of murder and terrorism, which is directed from Cork, and also objected to Sinn Fein. using the city rates for the promotion of their criminal plans, "The normal Englishman may well ask why there has been no inquiry," says Mr, Stockley, True. Sinn Fein, by methods of its own, would provide plenty of evidence against the R.L.C, and the military, but no one in Ireland (or out of it, I trust) would place any credence en such evidence, Anyone who gave evidence against Sinn Fein would certainly be shot, og experi-once proves. There' was no "mistake" in the murder of Lynch. The uniformed Sinn Feiners who murdered him did not shoot the wrong man. Poor Lynch knew he was a marked man, but he could not get out of the country.
Nor was there any "mistake"
at Thurles, when Sinn Feiners, in police uniforms, went about the town firing into the houses of their friends (after duly giving them notice) two hours after all the police had returned to barracks, in order to provide a good
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