LONDONDERRY MELEES.

Northern Advocate, 24 June 1920, Page 5

LONDONDERRY MELEES.

NINE CIVILIANS KILLED

MILITARY REPRESSION

(Received 8 a.m.) LONDON, June 22

Mr Bonar Law, in the Common?-., stated that the County Inspector «i Londonderry reported that nine civilians had been killed and fifteen to twenty wounded.

Briga-.lier-General Arthur Campbell, commanding the district, had gone to Londonderry with full discretion to dnal with the situation.

The Chief Secretary had stated that tie force in Londonderry was reported to be adequate, but General Campbell had been instructed to ask for whatever force ho might think necessary.

The '' Pall Mall Guzette'' states that Lori Monteagle will introduce a bill in the Lords proposing the establishment of a Parliament for Ineland, including a Constituent Assembly empowered to formulate an Irish constitution on dominion lines.—Renter. The Londonderry magistrates have urged the Government to proclaim martial law and to send sufficient troops to enforce it. Soldiers wearing full equipment slept in the streets of Londonderry last night, sentries with fixed bayonets marching up and down. Military reinforcements have been dispatched from Belfast to assist the bread and milk deliveries in Londonderry. It is rumoured in Dublin that the Government is about to close down all the Irish railways.—A. and N..