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Grey River Argus, 20 May 1922, Page 5

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ANARCHV IN BELFAST. POLICE < >LLECT ARMS. LONDON, May 18. Further shooti ig occurred in Belfast streets to-day. drs Broom, a Protestant, saw seven non lire at a window ut* her dwelling She shouted to her daughter to lie down, but the latter, who was late in obeying, was wounued. Three armed men entered the residence of Mrs Jo/ephinc Keown, a Catholic, seeking hwr husband. They shot and dangeronslj wounded Mrs Keown, slightly wounddd her son.

It is believefl that several men were killedkilled last night in the prolonged struggle between military and gunmen the former? using machine guns. A partv of men, wearing police caps admission to tire Musgrave I’oliccj/r a tracks, Belfast, and rushed towards 'he arms room. Inmates of the

barracks were roused and the raiders escaped over the walls. One constable was snot dead. Armed men boarded a tramcar in Belfast and shot two passengers dead. T|e police and military area ow making a house-to-house inspection of the cit;. LONDON, May 17. In consequence of the abnormal nimber of police necessary to maintain cyder in Belfast during non-curfew I hours, the Northern P< rliament decided that curfew will begin at 1" o’clock } instead of 11 p.m. The Government, in defending the action of Parliament, declared that it would close public houses altogether if necessary. DISPUTE OVER PRISONS. LONDON, May 17. Ballinrobe rebels in possession of the barracks refuse to release the Irish Regular Army prisoners. NOT WESTMINISTER’S BUSINESS'. Professor Butcher sought to move the adjournment of the House of Commons in order to draw attention to what he termed “open and avowed rob- j bery of British subjects in Southern ' Ireland and the failure of the Imperial Government to make representations to i the provisional government.” The speaker refused the motion, on the ground that it was a matter lor the Irish Provisional Government. RIVAL GANGS. (Received May 19, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 18. Protestants and Roman Catholics alike were victims of the rival murder gangs in Belfast. A man was shot in the abdomen in the street, and died in a few hours. Two men boarded a | tram car, and shot dead a youth sitting on the top deck. The murderers es- I caped, though there were 60 passengers on the car. In a case, already cabled, of two flax dressers going to employment, several men took their scats behind them, and < shots rang out, and then the men ran < * down the stairs carrying smoking re- I i volvers. The passengers, who thought ' ' the firing came from outside, were i crouching on the floor. The conductor • ) ran upstairs and found two flax dress- ' ers huddled on the floor. ■ I {