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Harold Spender writes in the Daily Chronicle. ******

It is becoming the fashion of the hour that people should take the law into "their own · hands. An injured husband of bigh military rank shoots his enemy. and is confined during his Majesty's pleasure." An angry youngster applies tar and fos- thers and is given a generous platform in the Press to boast of his deed and defy the authorities. Thus fanned and encouraged, the habit spreads like a prairie fire.

It begins to take a mass form. | One body of aggrieved soldiers wreck a camp which they have come to hate: another storms & police station and kills a sergeant of police. Colour hatred adds a fresh spark of fuel of human pas- sion. White mobs attack black and yellow men at Liverpool, Cardiff and East London... When the black and yellow men defend themselves the defence itself be- comes a new crime....

The poison of lynch law, in other words, is beginning to creep into our social system. And there is no poison more cruel and viral-[ eat. Before we yield to it any longer let us look the facts in the face. For this country of England has been hitherto singularly free from this malady, and it may be worth while to think carefully before public speakers or writers say or write anything to en- courage it.

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Russia is at present paradise of lynch law; and it is rather interesting to see how it works out. One of the latest refugees from Russia has been describing to me the state-of affairs in one of her great towns. The law courts have all been abolished. So far, so good. It sounds quite a dream! But, curiously enough,offences against the law still happen. Certain people will steal, and certain pos- sessors still resent being stolen from. The result that crowds take the matter into their own bands. They do not wait for the Revolutionary Tribunal. The thief is just summarily taken and shot or hanged. There are no pleadings; there is no waste of policemed's time; there is no worry about witnesses.

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has taken the grim determination that there shall be no mixture of stock. That is by no means-an easy task, to maintain, even in a country like ours. How much more difficult in those States where the black population is rapidly threatening to out-number the white! But so deep is the determination that the white man refuses to hand over this matter to the process of law. The purity of the stock in these States is defended by a literal system of white terror," which has become part of the customs of the coun- try. Lynch law, in other words, has become an institution.

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Hull correspondent of the mcle writes held in small photograph of a man, middle-aged, wall preserv ed, robust and healthy. Before me sat a man whom one would take to be 70.

His clothes hung loosely upon him, his cheeks were s aken, and his beard was heavily streaked with grey. But his eyes were bright like those in the photograph.

It was one and the same man. Mr. R. Bielby, a shipping agent of Riga, who has family connect- ions at Hull, but in the interval since the photograph was taken he had spent many months as a prisoner in the hands of the Bolsheviks, first in the fortress of Peter and Paul at Petrograd, and from January 18 to May 25 in the Batirski Prison, Moscow. The starvation diet and the pestilenti- al cells had taken toll of his health and physique. Only an indomitable spirit had kept him alive.

Mr. Bielby, told me that he bad lived in Russia for 25 years, and at the time of the attack on the Russian Embassy at Petrograd), fon August 31, when he was taken prisoner, was attached to the Naval Transport Department. Ho was near Captain Cromie when that gallant officer was killed, and he sbared the horrors of the

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"The people attached to the Embassy and Consular staff were exchanged about October 10 (they had been incarcerated since August 31), but I was kept there for four months. Then I was sent to Moscow. They never told but they were always saying to me why they were detaining me. me. Tell the truth.

At Moscow I had nine investi- gations, I was frequently told that I was going to be shot, but eventually I was exchanged, with others, for Commander Raskol nikoff.

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"The treatment in prison was terrible. At the fortress of Peter and Paul, we were packed like sheep in a pen, and our only food was cabbage soup and a quarter of a pound of bread, so-called, each day. Afterwards, when the others had been exchanged, I was placed in solitary confinement

At Moscow the food. was a little better, but the other condi tions were worse. For ten days I was kept in a small room with 72 others, criminals of all classes. There were no beds, merely boards to sleep upon, and we were only allowed out in batches of ten for a few minutes each morning.

"In the first week eight were. taken

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I could hardly stand. I petition- "I was so weak with dysentery

of my health, but was told that ed for discharge, on the ground

a great deal since my liberation. I should be not. I have improved I rested a week at Helsingfors, and was nearly another week on the steamer coming to Hull.

AN INCURABLE - HABIT. a lady traveller at a provincial the results and surely they All the best Americans deplore railway-station thought she had should be a warning to us. lost a hundred rouble notes, and it is calculated that every year, Suspected an unfortunate gentle- in the Southern States of Americe man who was travelling in the some 60 people are done to 'death same train with her. The un- in this manner. Since 1885 over happy man was hauled out, and 2,500 are estimated to have as two hundred rouble notes were perished. Since 1912 there has found on him, that was thought been an increase in the yearly to provide a fair margin for risk, average. The process is often by

In spite of it all I like Russia and so he was taken out and shot. burning, and has, in some cases, and the Russian people, and I But as the firing party returned been patronised even by them quite ready to go back; when from this virtuous deed they were responsible officials of the towns things settle down. I have had met by the lady in an excited in which these events occurred. happy days in the Baltic pro- frame of mind, for she had dis- The little children of, the schools vinces, and I can say nothing covered

the rouble notes in have been drawn up to witness against the real Russian people. another pocket. The case seemed the slow burning of an In- ***I see certain people at home happy wretch, against whom some random accusations have made These things are well known to the American Government, and are deplored by the best opinion in that country. But so deeply has the babit of lynch law struck into the lifs Russia must go her own wey of the Southern American States and learn her own lessons; but that no American Government surely our civilisation is old dares to suppress it with a high enough to prevent us from having hand.

awkward; but it was quite easy lo put it right. They there and then tried the lady for false teen evidence. put her up against the same wall, and shot her also. Final upshot of lynch law-two innocent persons finally disposed

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have strong leanings towards the Bolshevik Well, let them go to Russia and be not the guests, but the victims of Bolshevism for six months. No, not six months-six weeks; that would be more than long enough to cure them."

take a liberal interpretation of such judicial utterancès: But what about the deceived women." and those who care for them? to re-learn at such fearful cost It is not for us to dictate to the The next step would be, if such e these lessons

nation's Americans, who have their own policy prevailed; that, finding no childhood! For the plain fact is troubles and their own problems; protection in the law, the guar- that our passions are no guide to but here is an outstanding wam-dians of such women would take justice. The mere fact that we ing to any of us who may the law into their own hands. feel very angry with a person is imagine that the process of Then the very same people who not sufficient evidence of his Iracbing is a habit to be applauded the lossening of the guilt Revenge," said Bacon, encouraged or trified with. law become the first to appland

is a wild justice." But the main

taose who act without the law. point is there is very little justice

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