BELFAST RIOTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1922, Page 5

BELFAST RIOTS

— “ Ft.) UK MUI IE VICTIMS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association./ LONDON, -Marell 11. X partv of gunmen ambushed t>v<» policemen al Falls Road, Belfast, and awaited their coming at a street coiner. They hied a revolver volley, killing Constable Cullen and desperately wounding Constable UConimi. Other armed men held up two etner policemen and stole their arms. Lieut. Bruce, of the Seaforths, who recently was employed in enforcing the Curfew regulations in Lellasl, was returning Lome in multi through Alfred Street, when thirty or forty men surrounded him and riddled him wi’h bi llets. The police rushed to lhe scene, but found Bruce dead. Other shootings resulted in a. woman being killed, and three other persons wounded. PEACE AL LIME KICK. LONDON, March 11. lhe Limerick trouble has ended. Both the Flee State and the Republican troops have agreed to evacuate the city. The Municipality lias taken over charge- { PROPAGANDA IN AMERICA. LQNDON, March 11. Three representatives of the Irish Provisional Government have sailed for New York to explain the Governent’s policy to Irish-Americans. Two De Valeraites sailed by die same steamer to enlist the support of Irish Americans in favour of a republic.