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Sinn Fein preparations for a widespread campaign of destruc- tion in Scotland and England were revealed in a captured documentwhich was read in the

House of Commons.

"Operations might well betion. carried out at Liverpool, London, and possibly Glasgow and New. castle. A train might be wroaked, a gasworks blown up, and occa sion made for looting says the document.

WEDNESDAY. APRIL ・

Captain Benn--I am a friend of Mr. Childers through our service in the Air Force, but I have not heard from him for many months.

OPERATIONS IN SCOTLAND,

Sir, Hamar said he was now fighting the conepiracy that Mr. Asquith allowed to grow. The fog of terrorism was disappearing. DISCIPLINE IN CROWN FORCES. So stern was the discipline of

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FALLING PRICES.

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DREAMS AND DIET.

Is Imagination Subject to Food Control ?

ed by Captain Benn, he remarked Ireland, and this Sinn Fein that the hon, and gallant momber organisation had grown up un- Mrs. Erskine Childers, who were The late Prime Minister's treat- enjoyed the friendship of Mr and checked under his careless régime.

Back to Pre-war Level in 25 extreme Sinn Fein Republicans, ment of rebels encouraged every

Years! and whose house, with another, rebel in Ireland, as his speeches was a clearing-house used by the encouraged them to-day.

"Wholesale prices are still

Of what stuff are dreams made? Mr. heads of the Republican Army Asquith did not intend it, but falling, and do not soam likely to Do we grow them, nourish them, from which members of the House because of his attitude every yet. For this reason, I am inclin- should go? Would it have been become stable for a few weeks train them in the way they of Commons who wished could assassin in Ireland looked uponed to revise the prediction made scientifically possible for Caler- receive ovary sort of informa-him as a friend.

last month as to the future course idge to have redreamed Kubla likely to reach their new steady inspired its opening lines? Are of retail prices, as they are not Khan, by repeating the 'dose the level until quits late in the au-visione in any wise subject to food ba substantially less than pre-war tumn, and that level will probably control ?

prices." Sir Hamar Greenwood continu- the forces of the Crown that flye The debate on Irish affairs wased that Ireland showed its un-members of the R. I. G. had been

Such is the assertion contained opened by Captain Wedgwood exampled prosperity in spits of convicted for offences, eight Leg Journal, written by Mr. in an article in the Industrial Benu, who moved to add an am-the Sinn Fein conspiracy to set members of the auxiliary forces, H., Williams an authority on endment to the Address

as up an independent Republic by a and one of the Dublin Metro- follows:-

policy of intimidation and asaas-politan Police; while there were "But we humbly represent to ination. This conspiracy was awaiting trial 28 R. I. C. 8 Williams has been giving very For the past twelve months Mr, Your Majesty that the policy and carried on by young men who special constables, and practice pursued by the Executive formed a minority and who were auxiliaries.

accurate forecasts as to the trend A.9 scon in Ireland have failed to secure not of the business and industrial accusation against a policeman tions in the cost of living, and 1of evouts in relation to the varia- the repression of organised outclasses of Ireland.

was mads he was arrested to circumstances have proved the rage: have involved officers and Their operations were always wait his trial. servants of the Crown in a com-destructive, and they had extend- petition in crime with the offened and were extending to Eng. ders against the law; have handedland and Scotland. over to the military authorities an unrestricted discretion in the Sinn Foin organisation were definition and pusishment of working in the hope of intimidat. offences; and have frustrated the ling the British people and the prospects of an agreed settlement British Government by the

He warned the House that the

of the problem of Irish self-revolver and the torch. In this government."

hope, they were encouraged by the direct actionists of Labour and by some of the speeches of some Labour leaders, and, he thought, by the speeches of the hon. member for Paisley.

He said that the question for them to consider was--How far had the Government succeeded in the methods they had adopted The Army was costing £1.500,000 a month, and up to October the claims for damages had totalled £5,000,000.

The note of optimism sounded be the Prime Minister and the Chief Secretary was NOL WAT ranted by the facts,

In 1910 there were 599 Sinn Fein outrages, while in 1920 they had increased to 9171, and this was the year in which the Prime Minister and the Chief Secretary declared that things were getting better!

As to the murders committed

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He pointed out that the police captured on Saturday last document from a member of the Irish Republican Army which referred to 21 contribution of £30,000 for the Republican Army, and had come from Irish-Ameri- can sympathisers in America.

The gentleman who owned the docueut left just before the police arrived. Under the head of *Operations Abroad," the writer said -

"i fear that the volunteers abroad fail to recogn sethe work,

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by members of the Crown forces, Liverpool companies give the the wretched creatures the Chief hopeless. London Secretary bad sent to Ireland, something on a small scale." He was the man they ought to

PLANS FOR WRECKING. attack. He and the Prime Quoting further from the Minister were the responsible document, Sir H. Greenwood said agents. He was the man who that the writer suggested that ought now 20 answer those charges in the House as he would out at Liverpool, London, and operations might well be carried at the possibly Glasgow and Newcastle. Such operations included the destruction of large

have to answer them Throne of Justice.

MR. ASQUITH ACCUSED,

It was the policy of assassina. tion that the Government we fighting, and it was watched by sinister eyes in Great Britain, in Egypt, in India, and throughout the world. Its success meant the break-up of the British

Empire and our civilisation.

Lord Robert Caeil, making his first speech since he crossed the floor, spoke in tones of despair of the murders on both sides, and urged the Government 10 abandon the whole policy of r priasts and concealment and to instituto a full inquiry by u strong Commission.

MR ASQUITH'S DISCLAIMER. Mr. Asquith contended that the case presented by Captain Wedgwood Benn had remained unanswered. The Chief Secre tary devoted a great deal of his time to himself (Mr. Asquith) very a personal attack on

unimportant matter. (Laughter.)

The Chief Secretary in his heuring stated that his speeches bad been treated as expressions of sympathy and encouragement, but he had never made a pocch

during the whole of this cam paigo in which he had, not denounced in the strongest and most emphatic terms the resort by the Sinn Fein organisation to any form of outrage or crime.

He had never accused the sympathy with this misguided forces in Ireland of any real and, as he thought, criminal policy of the Government, and it because he had felt so works, was

Sir Hamar Greenwood said that buildings, and farm crops by fire, strongly and denounced so stern- tution had been made of the and possibly the destruction of ly the resort of Sina Fein to effect on foreign nations and oneal mines, of aqueducts, telep-crime that he had felt constrain- Dominions of the Government's honos, and a system of wreckinged to denounce in even stronger policy in Ireland. If opinion trains.

terms the imitation by the agents and officers of the Government of the same criminal methods.

employment as possible,"

the conduct and administeration

finance.

Accuancy of his assumptions. have been eagerly looking forward People of limited means who or signs of any appreciable fall will no doubt receive this prog- nostication with a deal of relief, and will await with interest the development of the forecast.

Mr. Williams holds the view that in a quarter of a century world prices will again be at their their pre-war level.

REDUCED WAGES. "Despite the slump in trade," he points out."it is remarkable that substantial

Wages were

Dreams, as we all know, are incomprehensible; fasting and feasting are equally prolific in which to start our strange ex- visions. But this is a point from cursion-while fasting is usually oredited with angelic or spiritual the other extreme. Abstinence insight, feasting is prone to touch invokes white angels; absinthe green devils.

FASTING AND FEASTING, Villan and Blake both dreamed -one of the legions of the lost, the one drank fire and the other the other of the heavenly host; lived at times on air. Then, like a red herring across the trail, came Francis Thompson, starving and pursued by the Hound of

Heaven. The normal state of a poet is that of want; his average inspirations ure pessimistic. It is the mystic who makes a volun- tary skeleton of himself who comes off best in dreamland, remarks a writer in a Home journal. increases in But if our sole door to that reported during happy realm is so narrow that we' December. One hundred and fif- must diet strictly for admission, toon thousand people had in- creases and if they were working for most of us. Our need lios there will be few pleasant dreame full time this would have meant more in the direction of re- an aggregate increase of £28,500 discovering the ambrosia of the per week. It is also noteworthy,gods. Experience has shown that however, that practically for the alcohol, oysters, Welsh raebit, o: 4.100 persons have reductions juro angelic visions. What are first time decreases were record-lobster and cucumber fail to con- aggregating to £2,100,

the meats and drinks inspired of Oberon ?

There is a tendency on the part of many people to urge action in connection with the foreign ex- changes, but these people are forgetting that it is not the exchanges which are the disease, but the condition of the exchanges is merely the symptom of the real disease, namely, a failure to pro- duce.

production."

of

secure

cheap

In the fulness of time there subconsciousness-a Saleeby, of will arise a Eustace Miles of the

suppers. Our boirs and assigns may order their dreams as they select their courses; playing on harmonic chords of dream.desire; blending their supper dishes to control their mid-night ecstasies.

DREAMS WOVEN IN THE KITCHEN.

Between

"On the part of this country, the troube is aggravated in two has been produced at such high opistes. De Quincey bad some ways. What we have produced

All experience warns us against cost that some of those who wish wonderful dreams, but then he to buy cannot, and many of those bartered his soul for them. Better who can buy won't; in other the ascetic fast that produced words, the consumers' strike is soul-enriching visions. still in operation.

"Wholesale prices are falling marches the long column of these extremes rapidly, bringing retail prices in ordinary folk, for whom the their train. The end of the cou-fabric of a dream is woven in the abroad WILS not against this. "The General Staff officers in

sumers' strike is in sight, and, kitchen. country that was not the fault of charge of operations abroad," the

How greatly Samuel therefore, it may be predicted Pepys, with his British appetite, Captain Bean or of his leader.document continued, "should be

A DISCREDITABLE CHAPTER. that improvement will begin to might have added to the scientific Mr. Asquith:

given a free band. A consiter-

He stated that the details of re-show itself at an early date. The value of his Diary, had he noted, He held in his hag a chartable amount could have been cent acts of reprisal on the purtraniding to the improvement will not only the menus of his meals, purporting to put a case against done in Liverpool, if I were of the forces of the Chown were depend on the extent to which but the dreams that followed them. reprisals which was covered with allowed a freer hand. My in- such as to make any Englishman, † employers and employees co dots on every spot where houses structions were to do as huchany Scotsman, and anybody who operate

Recent research in dream lan had been damaged or destroyed, destruction causing as little an had any kind of responsibility for

has evolved a theory tha: our and which was issued without

dreams are part of ourselves-tell any reference to wher circumst-

me your dreams, and I will toll The writer also urged co-opera- of this country blush with shame. anes. This was issued to the tion with Comunists and un-He did not think there was a more curcol during Mr. Law's speech. science will say, Tell me your Angry passage on both sides you what you are. Presently French papers by a colleague of employed, and occasion right discreditable chapter in the whole With regard to the charges against dreams, and 7 will tell you what Mr. Asquith as part of a pro- also be made Or looting. If one history of british administration. Roverament paganda carriol on by official train were wrecked it would cause

administration in

you ate. It may be too fanciful Urging the ed of a prompt. Ireland, Mr. Bonar Law stated Liburalism. (Cries

Who alarm amongst the travelling pulopes, impartial, and ind pendeat that such protests had always dreams, while those born of straw- to suppose that beef inspires wild Anton. Member-Masterman, emmmpanies,

Tie and injury to the railway inquiry, Mr. Asquithe said it was ven made when coercion wasberries are sweet; but may there

the duty of the House to demand AN ALLEGATION REPI TEB

eressary in freland.

not be varme subtle connection abu stated in the that the Government should graun Ho claimed that the position in between the nature of the dream, Sir Hamar referred to the letter domment taat if a gasworks were such an inquiry without delay, ireland was improving. Wich sant by Mfr. Po Valera to niem-blown up no dunha Rves would be He also emphasised the need for regard to the sugestion of an

and that of its culinary source? bers of the House. The letter, be lost, but the effect of throwing a atrace, which, he said, mast binquiry. I asked the House to JAPAN-CHINA EDUCATIONAL sund, reiterated the usual accusa-town in darkness should encour-an avenuto a permanens sufle-have regard to the realities of the

SOCIETY. tions against the Government, age the organised and

situation. but there was pue to which he organised groups referred to.

Witnesses could not The Japan-China Educational be got to give evidence. minst publicly draw the attention

Quly Tociety has two domitories for This, continued Sir Hamar Party passion flamed up again yesterday two men, had been Chinese students in Tokio at of the House. That was anfirewood, is the most serious when Mr. Bonar Law reinforced murdered because they gave Tenjincho, Yashima, Hongo and allegation that soldiers Clean, Delicious & Appetising. policemen had been guilty of any rebel organisation. These Mr. Asquith. The Leader of the the terror prevailed.

and document that could be issued by the Chief Secretary's attack an evidence. It would be a while at Oiwake, Komagome, Hongo Once Tried Always Asked For.

with about 100 students residing, outrages on women.

Feiners mean to do their best to House' declared, European Menus o la carte at

amidst lond In conclusion, Mr. Bonar Law and as the society has been grant- Albough there were 60,000 | carry it out. I give them credit Coalition cheers, that what Sirsaid that those who said that the ed Yen 150,000 per year of subsidy All Hours. Teas, Ice Cream,"

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Diet, it proposes to build four encouragement not only by Sinn The amendment was defeated more domitories in Hongo and. sons, with Drawing Room at- Referring to Various Cosex When Mr. Asquith came into Foin in Ireland but they were cir- by 257 votes to 83, and the Koshikawa to house about: 200 tachel.

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