INCENDIARIES IN BELFAST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 402, 20 May 1922, Page 5

INCENDIARIES IN BELFAST.

WAREHOUSES SET ON FIRE.

SIX SEPARATE OUTBREAKS.

By Electric Telegraph-Copyright. Received May 20, 9.5 aim. LONDON, May 19. Incendiaries set on fire six warehouses in widely separated areas in Belfast between seven and nine o'clock in tho morning. A clothing factory was destroyed and others heavily damaged.-A. and N.Z. sable.

RIVAL MURDER GANGS.

FURTHER SHOOTING IN BELFAST.

LONDON, May IS

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 tramcar and shot dead a youth sitting on the top deck. The murderers escaped, though there were 00 passengers on the ear. In the case of two flaxdressers who were going to their employment several men took seats behind them. Shots rang out and the men ran down the stairs carrying smoking revolvers. The passengers, who thought the tiring came from the outside, were crouching on the floor. The conductor ran upstairs and found the two flaxdresserS huddled on the floor.—A. and N. Z. cable.

"OPEN AND AVOWED ROBBERY."

LONDON, May 18.

Sir J. G. Butcher sought leave to move the adjournment of the House 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 Government." The Speaker refused the motion on the ground that it was a matter for the Provisional Government.—A. and N. Z. cable,