IRISH AFFAIRS

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4594, 22 May 1922, Page 4

IRISH AFFAIRS

ROBBERY OF BRITISH SUBJECTS (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. - *' .Aust. and M.Z. Cable Association.) ■London, May 18. Sir J. G. Butcher sought leave to move the adjournment of the Houso of Commons in order to draw attention to the "open and avowed robbery of British subjects in Southern Ireland, and the failure of the Imperial Government to make representations to the Provisional Goevrnment." The Speaker refused the motion on the ground that it was a matter for the Provisional Government. SECTARIAN W r AR IN BELFAST. Protestants and Roman Catholics aliko were victims of tho rival murder gangs in Belfast. A man was slot in the abdomen in the street and died in a fe*v hours. Two men boarded a tramcar and shot dead a youth sitting on tho top deck. The murderers escaped, though there vnre 60 passengers on the car. In the case of the two flaxdressers who were going to their employment, sovoral men took seats behind them. Shots rang out and the 'uen ran down the stairs carying smoking revolvers. The passengers, who thought tho firing came from outsido, were crouching on tho floor. The conductor ran upstairs and found tho two flaxdressers huddled on the floor. INCENDIARISM IN BELFAST. London, May 19. Incendiaries set on fire six warehouses in widely separated areas in. Belfast between 7 and 9 o'clock this morning. A clothing factory was destroyed and the other places were heavily damaged.