MORE STIPULATIONS

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 206, 30 August 1921, Page 5

MORE STIPULATIONS

BEFORE NEXT CONGRESS. S£ VAIXEA'S REPLT. ARTHUR GRIFFITHS MAY HEAD DELEGATION. {Br Cal'.c.— Press Association.— i:opjTis!h.t.) fliccelvcd IL'.SO p.m.) LONDOX, August CO. H is bi-lieved that the Dai) Eirann"s i reply to -Mr. Lloyd Ueorge will be drafted to-day. It is expected that while agreeing to a conference Mr. do Valera will make further stipulation?. It is reported that if negotiations are resumed at Downing Street. Mr. Arthur Griffiths, tho Republican Foreign Minister, instead of Mr. do Vsilern, will head the Sinn Fein delegation.— (A. and N.Z.) DB VALERA AJHJ ULSTER. A FOREIGN MINORITY. MUST SUPPORT SOUTH OR GET OUT. iKceived 2 p.ui) PARTS, August 29. The newspaper ■Liberte" interviewed Mr. do Valera, who said that his attitude on the religious question was mutual tolerance. The Catholic Church was not the State church of Ireland, and it did not want to be, and it would not bo. Ulster was merely a minority, moreover » minority consisting of elements foreign to Ireland. Ulstcrmen, however, were Irish, and if prepared to recognise their nationality, the Government would raakc every possible concession in their favour. "To Ulstermen who choose Ireland," he added, "we will give all that is best of Dominion Home Rule. To Ulstermen who support England we will give all the financial compensations possible to enable them to establish themselves abroad. "We shall not permit England to impose her warships on our territorial laters." —(A. and N.Z. Cable.) RIOT IN BELFAST. REVOLVERS AND BOMBS. ." (Recclred 10.30 a.m.l LONDON, August 20. At Belfast to-day a serious riot occurred during the dinner hour, when bombs wore hurled and revolvers fired between Sinn Feiners and Royalists. There were several casualties. The police and . military eubdued the disturbance.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Just before the last mail left England there was a. fierce outbreak of rioting in : Belfast, as a result of which fourteen people were shot dead and a large num-1 ber were wounded. The trouble began about midnight, during curfew hours, with an unexpected attack on the police in the Sinn Fein quarters of West Belfast. According to the official version, the trouble originated in Ross Street. A detachment of police on curfew patrol was proceeding along the street when fire was opened upon it from the houses on cither side. The first volley, directed with deadly aim against the police, took effect. Constable Thomas (.'onion was shot through the neck and expired almost immediately. Two of his companions were wounded. The occupants of the tender, taking up positions, | opened fire in the direction from which the shots had come. A regular fusillade was kept up for some time, and then the assailants of the police, emboldened by I the earlier success, came out into the open and met the R.I.C. men face to face. The police were hopelessly outnumbered. Reinforcements, however, soon arrived on the scene, and volley after volley was seat through the darkness towards the Sinn Fein gunmen. After a time quietness again reigned. | While this battle was in progress there i was also firing in the adjoining streets,! but the shooting was not so fierce as in Ross Street. The Sinn Feiners were well armed, and they had apparently plenty '■ of rifles, ammunition, and bombs. With ; lhe lull in the fighting the police re- j eumed operations. They carried out, searches in the district, and while so doing were occasionally sniped at, but did not suffer any further casualties. Shortly after curfew ended a number of fires were discovered in the affected area. The fire brigade were called to Cupar Street, where five houses were alight. There were several other slight outbreaks.. There was tense excitement in the Falls district, and practically during the whole forenoon there was desultory firing. The afternoon provided rioting j of a serious nature, and assumed a party aspect in the streets between the Falls ami Shankill Roads. Crowds stoned each ! other, and there was universal revolver | firing. An armoured car got between the combatants, and so bad was the disturbance that it was necessary to fire. 'Three persons were killed about this time. The trouble spread to the Peter's Hill area, where snipers gave the police much trouble. They u're.l down North Street and other streets into Royal Avenue. At live o'clock a procession of Orangemen, returning from anniversary scrvk-e at the Ulster Hall, iame down | Royal Avenue. They were tired oil at various point?, but prevailed, and the men, four deep, in full regalia. | marched steadily on, leaving their at-rsail- | ants to the police. The duel between the j police and snipers in tho North Strpct | area, was maintained for hours. The j outbreak was regarded as Sinn Fein's i last kick before the truce. At six o'clock the death-roll had been increased to six.