SINN FEIN RIOT
OUTBREAK AT CORK
TROOPS AND MACHINE-GUNS CALLED OUT
ONE MAN KILLED AND SEVERAL HIT (Bee. Juno 25, 7 40 p.m.) , m . London, June 24. lhe Sinn at Cork, hoisted the Republican flag over the courthouse on Sunday, broke the windows of the recruiting offices, fend held a public meeting to denounce the Irish Convention. Some of the released prisoners stated that they wore ready Mr another' rebellion.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. '' • ' (Bee. .Tune 2G, 0.5 a.m.) London, June 25. There was rioting at Cork on Sunday evening. The Sinn Peiners attacked the Rooruiting Office. The relatives of men at tho front resented the outrage, and the police made baton charges. These were ineffectual, nnd the military, with machine-guns, were called out. The police were repeatedly stoned, and had' to act drastically. Shots were fired and one maa was killed and another wounded, besides a dozen cases of wounds-from bayonets. The disorders were quelled by midnight.—Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3120, 26 June 1917, Page 5
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