BELFAST GUNMEN
I FIERCE ACTIVITIES.
LONDON, Bth March.
Gunmen engaged in fierce activities' in Belfast throughout the day, early establishing themselves on chimneys, roofs, and windows in the Oarrick Hill locality, from which they fired at shipyard employees proceeding to work. Five were killed, including two boys, during the forenoon. Early in the afternoon the situation became worse. Later, snipers descended into/the streets, which were in some cases made impassable. A detachment of the Norfolk Regiment stationed in Hanover-street was compelled to open fire, kilnng two snipers and. wounding a third. Gunmen hurled a bomb into a military patrol, wounding a soldier. Later machine-ffuM were tilled against the grcnmeri, who temporarily ceased their activities, which, however, were resumed in the evening. Many civilians ware wounded. : A bomb was flung into a restaurant, but there were no casualties.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1922, Page 7
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