BLOODSHED IN BELFAST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18016, 15 February 1922, Page 7

BLOODSHED IN BELFAST.

NINE DEATHS ON MONDAY.

BOMB KILLS TWO CHILDREN.

FOURTEEN OTHERS INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 7.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Feb. 14. The situation in Belfast is so critical that the authorities have rcimposed the curfew. Soven persons were killed and 20 wounded between midnight and 6 o'clock yesterday. Most of the casualties were due to snipers. One man was killed when sitting at homo rocking a baby in a cradle. The child narrowly escaped. A later messagb states:—Sniping continued in Belfast last night. A bomb was thrown near the York Road police barrack* and killed two children and bounded 14 other people, three of whom are not expected to live.

FUNDS FOR DE YALERA.

APPEAL TO AMERICA.

MR. COLLINS' REJOINDER.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed- 5.30 p.m.) NEW YORK. Feb. 13.

Mr. .Michael Kelly, secretary of the New York, headquarters of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, lias disclosed the receipt of a cablegram from Mr. de Valera asking that funds should be collected in America to finance his campaign in opposition to the Irish. Provisional Government. (food. 6.45 pra.) LONDON. Feb. 13. Mr. Michael Collins has cabled to Mr. Lyons, secretary of the Washington branch of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish. Republic, as follows:—"1 firmly believe that the Dail Eireann should not allow it* funds to be applied either for the Free State Party or the self-styled republicans. The alternative to the treaty sooner or later is reversion to war conditions. That is the issue I want the people to decide.

"If they decide for war none can doubt where 1 stand. Meanwhile, do not

torpedo U3, and I warn you not to assist or countenance the coup d'etat which is being planned against the new Government as witness the affair at Cork where

eparting British police had their arms

seized by Mr. de Valera's supporters. The only object of such action is to destroy the Provisional Government and hamper the evacuation of British forces. Mr. de Valera's statement makes it perfectly clear that we are regarded as greater enemies than the British. Do you stand for that? Let us all be frank and candid and see where our different policies lead."

RECOGNITION OF CROWN.

ANSWER TO DE VALERA.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Seed. 5.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13.

I Mr. Arthur Griffith to-night issued an official reply to Mr. de Valera in which he pointed.out the treaty only gave the same recognition to the British Crown as Mr. de Valera himself proposed.