IRISH FREE STATE.

Grey River Argus, 18 May 1922, Page 5

IRISH FREE STATE.

TRADE EFFECTED BY UNREST. WORKERS SEIZE FACTORIES. | A. and N. Z. Cr.bln a a«npintio7il LONDON, May 15. “The Times’s” Dublin correspondent roDorts: An urgent note of alarm concerning the effects of disorders on tr: <le and commerce has been sounded by the Federation of Irish Commercial Travellers, who psSued a manifesto to the effect that their firms will be notified that, unless disorders cease and a settlement is arrived at, credit will be completely restricted, and consequent upon the carrying companies declining liability for the care or delivery of goods, a total cessation of trade will follow. Four more factories have been seized ami are being worked by the employees. ANOTHER LONDON CONFERENCE. CRAIG REFUSES TO GO. LONDON, May 16. Sir James Craig states that he has not received any invitation to the proposed conference on Irish affairs, and hopes that lie will not receive one. I. is practically certain that Sir J. Craig will (lecline to come to London. Collins will be unable to attend owing to the pressure of his work in Dublin. REPRISAL. AT A FUNERAL. LONDON, May 16. Ar the funeral of Beattie, a murdered Belfast policeman, a party of Sinn Feinors. without the least provocation, fired into the mourners following the coffin. Several persons were shot and the clergy had a narrow escape. Women and children in the streets were terrorstricken and fled, screaming, or lay in heaps on the ground. Military police care guarding the funeral, turned and fired upon the attackers, who returned the fire. A man named Fadden who was concerned in the firing, was pursued by an infuriated mob into a shop, where he was shot dead.