THE TROUBLES OF BELFAST.

Evening Star, Issue 17957, 2 May 1922, Page 8

THE TROUBLES OF BELFAST.

TO Tire EDITOR. Sir, —In your leader in .Saturday night’s ‘Star’ you state that Sir James Craig could not keep the “ bigots ” of Belfast from murdering Catholics, inferring, I take it, that all tho shooting in Belfast is directed agaiijet them, whereas the bloodshed is as great on one side as the other. Murder follows murder. Take the bombing of a ear load of Protestant workers on their way home. Several of them were killed. In one week-end in Belfast .seventeen persons were treated in hospital for gunshot ami bomb wounds, of whom twelve were Protestants, a sufficient answer to the attempts made to prove that, a program against Catholics is being carried out. To coerce Ulster by hook or crook is tlie aim of certain people ,iu Ireland, and they have, tried to do it by terrorising the people; hut they have found in Ulster a people who can hit hack as hard and harder, and so the cry goes, up that, they are being massacred, and' the Smith, if not united in some things, is united in believing that. Catholics are lei'ir murdered daily, this Knag part, of a Sinn Fein campaign that is on foot in camouflage much of what is happening in Ireland. The murders of Catholics arc the result of the pent-up feelings o! men who are determined not to be, terrorised by anv gang of assassins. Can yon blame them? Tlmy sec these murderers get away time after time. The law does nol seem (o be able to do anything, and so it (rocs on, and not until (he Finn Fein gunmen are silenced will there be Peace, in Bel-fast.—-I am, etc., Fair Pi.ay, April 20.