More Ulster killings

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33254, 18 June 1973, Page 13

More Ulster killings

Two car bombs rocked _the

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright)

BELFAST, June 17. Protestant extremists are believed to be responsible for the death of a Roman Catholicyouth, Daniel Rouse, aged 17, whose body was found on waste ground in the Andersonstown area of Belfast last night, a few hours after the city’s evening newspaper, the ‘“Belfast Telegraph,” had received a telephone call j from a man claiming to be a member of, the Ulster Freedom Fighters. The caller said that one of his group had kidnapped and shot a youth in retaliation for the earlier murder of Mr Michael Wilson, _brother-in-

Jaw of the former Ulster Defence Association vice-chair-jman, Mr Thomas Herron. I “There will be plenty more lof this happening,’’ the caller - said. ! Mr Wilson had acted as a ■ [bodyguard to Mr Herron, one of Northern Ireland’s militant? [Protestant leaders, who said ; iafter the murder that he? [knew he was on the Irishi: Republican Army’s assassination list, and that he him-1 self had been the real target! of the guerrillas. Many ob-i servers, however, feel that the shooting was part of a feud among militant Protestants. [ A statement issued last 'night by the Provisional wing I | of the I.R.A. in Dublin said:? |“No member of the I.R.A. I [was involved in the shooting [of the U.D.A. man, Michael < [Wilson . . . Herron's theory is ludicrous.” |i 1

Ulster capital last night. The ■ first exploded, without warn- ; ing, in the markets area, but only one person was injured. IA large bomb exploded in a car in the Roman Catholic) Lower Falls area, but in this :case a warning had been ! given, and people were -cleared from a nearby club,, before the bomb went off. i No-one was hurt, but exten-|| isive damage was caused to (the club, and to some of the Ihouses in the narrow street. In Londonderry, a tea , chest full of explosives in a ' van exploded outside the | police headquarters, where a crowd of about 80 people had been demonstrating I about some arrests. The 'crowd dispersed quickly; 1 when the police warned them 1 of the bomb. Earlier yesterday, three ' men, and a woman believed to;; be an I.R.A. explosives ex-' pert had appeared in a Belfast court after being arres-ij ted on Friday night in a ' house containing explosives.;. Said to be senior members of j the Provisional’s Belfast bri- J gade, all four turned their backs to the Court, accord- 1( ing to I.R.A. tradition, andL refused to recognise it. They L were remanded in custody. i In their raids on Friday!, night. British troops also ( found rifles and 2000 rounds of ammunition in a house ini! the Protestant area of Bootle I' (Street, off Shankill Road.