RIOTING IN ULSTER
CHURCH OUTRAGE IN CORK.
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(Received July 26, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 25th July.
-.Several deaths-have occurred in the! Belfast Hospital,- ; - making "the riot's deathroll seventeen."- 'Rioting" miring the week-end was less extensive, but occasionally hostile crowds exchanged stones and.bottles..;. Protestant families were ■ evicted^frqm/ Catholio areas, and vice versa, and their furniture was thrown into the streets and burned. There warn wild scenes, on; Saturday night in the ''neighbouring towns -of -Bangor,- Ballyhahihch", 'Newtown, "ahd'Lisburri," necessitating the calling out of troops. A military patrol,- which was enforcing the.curfew at Blackpool (Cork) was_ fired: on,' and'returned the firei" -wounding a. labourer named. Callaghan. . Mr... Mulhern, Chief of the Intelligence department of .West .Cork, /was murdered as he reached the holy water font in. the. church, arid was making the sign of the cross. Two masked men, hiding in ■the porch, "fired several 'shots at pointblank, range, and Mulhern immediately expired. . The service. . was suspended, but was resumed an hour .later, when the priest strongly denounced the.crime.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 22, 26 July 1920, Page 8
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172RIOTING IN ULSTER Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 22, 26 July 1920, Page 8
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