To this add the political crimes, the Sinn Fein murders both here and in Ireland, the arson and incendiarism, and now a new form of annoyance which is universal in London, namely window slashing. Men slink round London at night scratching the huge panes of plate glass in shops and all other buildings with diamond cutters. The window is irretrievably ruined, and very often collapses under wind pressure. Up to the present there have been hundreds of these cases and no one has been caught. There is, too, every indication that armies of cranks of destructive instincts abound—they rip up the cushions of the taxi-cabs, cut off the railway straps of carriages, snip off girls' hair, ink dresses Again the
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