RIOTS IN BELFAST.
STREET FIGHTING. KING’S VISIT MAY BE CANCELLED (Press Association— Copyright.) (Received 8.55 a.m.) London, June 13. Riots have been resumed in Belfast. On Sunday night the opposing crowds of Loyalists and SinnFeiners stoned each other in Cork Street and the neighbourhood. They fired revolvers and rifles from windows and roofs of houses, and several bombs were thrown. Soldiers in armoured cars restored order. Constable Sturdy was fatally shot, and also three civilians. About 50 were treated in the hospitals. Sniping between Loyalists and Sinn Feiners occurred in Kashmir Road, and one Loyalist was killed and three wounded. The disturbances may result in the cancellation of the King’s visit to open Parliament. Two Sinn Feiners, Timothy Murphy and Edward Punch, were sentenced to death at Limerick for levying war and possessing arms. They were reprieved and sentenced to imprisonment for life.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XVI, Issue 1533, 14 June 1921, Page 5
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