MOST GHASTLY DAY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 12 July 1921, Page 5

MOST GHASTLY DAY

IN BELFAST HISTORY

LONDON, July H

Sunday was the most ghastly day in Belfast’s history. Unionist mobs burned down forty-two houses, of which twenty belonged to Catholics in Cupar Street alone. Hospital surgeons had continuous work for nine hours. One hospital announced at seven in tho evening that it could not accommodate further cases and private hospitals bad to be utilised. Catholic refugees from their burned down homes were seeking a spot to lav their heads. Sunday afternoon’s bombardment ot the area, comprising three eights of the citv, was reminescent of France. For more than three hours nobody except the Crown forces went outdoors. It is estimated that ten thousand rounds of ammunition swept tho streets in that locality. . Fourteen are known to bo Killed, and others are believed to have been carried into the houses. During the firing, shots, fired at an ex-po!iseman a house in Kilcash, killed a fifteen year old girl. ' , ir Maiur O’Connor, » retired officer, was taken from his bed at Rochestown, Cork, and shot dead. , iomr soldiers’ who were kidnapped at Cork on Sunday were found two miles outside tho town, shot.

DE VALERA GOING TO LONDON

LONDON, July 11. Mr Lloyd George in the House of Commons announced receipt of Do Valera’s telegram stating that was arriving in London on Thursday. _ The Sinn Fein delegation consists of Dc Valera, Arthur Griffiths, Stack and Barton, all members of the Dali Eireann.