Colonel
O’Callaghan’s son, George, objects
to unfair reporting of the evictions.
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Sensational Reports
To the Editor of the “St. James’s Gazette
Sir
This evening you very properly call
the Irish Eviction Exhibition a calamity.
I think the same expression might
well be applied to the distorted descrip-
tions by which several London papers
endeavour to make political capital
out of these wretched scenes. For
instance the “Daily Telegraph” today
states that Col. O’Callaghans’ tenants
(31) were evicted for the “non-payment of
£1250 or, at most, £1300…..of which
amount £900 had been offered by the
tenants in settlement….”, whereas
by the statement of their own