GUERRILLA WARFARE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18340, 2 September 1921, Page 5

GUERRILLA WARFARE

FIEECE EIOTS IN BELFAST. HOSPITALS OVERCROWDED. INACTIVITY OF THE MILITARY Press Asswittion—By Tqjegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 31. Fierce rioting is reported over a wide area in Belfast. This morning the principal city thoroughfares came within the danger zone, and hundreds of people were prevented from proceeding to business. The shooting became intense at times. There were many narrow escapes from stray bullets. Tne shipyard workers, while on their way to work, were sniped at. Richard Duffy was shot dead and several persons were wounedd. The hospital accommodation is taxed to the utmost by a large number of wounded people. The Lord Mayor protested to the officer in command that the troops werfe not used to protect the citizens. The inactivity of the military is ascribed to the continuance of the Irish truce.. The military subsequently agreed to take over the. situation.—A. and N.Z. Cable. SITUATION REPORTED EASIER. LONDON, August 31* There were five deaths at Belfast today. The situation is reported to be easier.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BLACK-AND-TAN OUTRAGES. HEAVY SENTENCES IMPOSED. ■LONDON, August 31. A court martial at Galway sentenced two Black-and-Tans each to 10 years’ penal servitude for breaking into a house and compelling two men lodgers to walk naked amongst broken bottles.—A. and N.Z. Cable. , INTEEYENTION BY TEOOPS. ORDER PRACTICALLY RESTORED. INVASION OF PROTESTANT QUARTER.

THE PEOPLE PANIC-STRICKEN. LONDON, August 31. (Received Sept. 1, at 5 5 p.m.) The ..Morning Post’s Belfast correspondent states that the public welcomed the intervention of the troops, as it was feared that the disorderly elements were getting the upper hand. The soldiers with fixed bayonets in the principal streets and armoured cars at the vulnerable points in the city prevented the trouble spreading.. The disorders, however, continued at* many places. Women and girls were fired on as they went to work, for<ng the millowners to forbid employees to leave the factories. Scenes of indescribable panic followed Bn invasion of the Protestant quarter of the city by gunmen. One party of Sinn Feiners by a trick secured admission to the York Street Spinning Mill and shot dotvn a worker. Attacks on Unionists were repeated during the evening when the shipyard workers and others were leaving the factories in. West Belfast. The police in West , Belfast were compelled to fire on the crowd until the shipyard workers had passed the danger zone.—A.. Wd N.Z. Cable. SINN FEIN GUNMEN. ’ NO RESPECT FOR AGE. A CENTENARIAN SHOT. LONDON, August 31. (Received Sept. 1, at 5.5 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph’s Belfast correspondent says that during the forenoon a couple of Sinn Feiners took up a position in the Royal Avenue and opened fire in the direction of a crowd of people who had congregated to watch events. This encouraged other snipers to get toward the crowd, who fled in all directions, but a number were wounded. The first youth who was struck dropped like a log. The crowd rushed and lifted him up. Another shot rang out and a little boy screamed in terror, he also having bden wounded. The victims were carried into a chemist’s shop, upon which the gunmen fired, breaking a window. The gunmen paid no respect to old age. They shot Jane M’Cracken, a centenarian, who was walking across the street. Finally an armoured car drove up and the gunmen cleared out of Royal Avenue. —A. and N.Z. Cable. CASUALTIES TO WEDNESDAY.

FOURTEEN KILLED ; 100 WOUNDED. . LONDON, September 1. (Received Sept. 1, at 8.5 p.m.) The casualties to Wednesday evening totalled 14 killed and about 100 wounded. A. and N.Z. Cable. WEDNESDAY’S FIGHTING. FIERCEST IN BELFAST'S HISTORY.

ADDITIONAL TROOPS ARRANGED FOR. LONDON, September 1. (Received Sept. 1, at 8.5 p.m.) The Belfast correspondent of the Daily News reports that Wednesday’s was probably the fiercest fighting in the long his tory of Belfast rioting. The trouble broke out afresh in the evening, and the military fired on the mob, one person being killed and four injured. The Ulster Cabinet, the Lord Mayor, military, and the police chiefs held a conference and arranged for additional troops to be drafted into the city.—A. and N.Z, Cable. WRECKERS OF PEACE. VIOLENT ORANGE LEADERS POGROM OF BELF AST CATHOLICS. LONDON, September 1. (Received Sept. 1, at 8.5 p.m.) The Dublin correspondent of the Daily

News says there is no doubt as to the meaning of the barbarous pogrom of the Catholics in Belfast. It is intended by the promoters, the most violent Orange leaders, to wreck the peace mov*mcnt by making any rapprochement between the North and South impossible. “A more devilish or wickeder device for enthroning the political feud and bringing the halfbuilt edifice of Irish peace crashing cannot be imagined. At the came time, the Sinn Fein is hardly entitled to complain, having itself taken up the sword. By keeping cool and acting in concert with Mr Lloyd George, Mr De Valera may stem the flood, but he must act quickly and resolutely. Unfortunately, it rather looks now as though Mr De Valera intended to use the trouble in order to score off England and to gain a tactical advantage in the negotiations. If so, the consequences may be supremely ’ agic.”—-A. and N.Z. Cable. SOVIETISM IN DUBLIN. BAKERY BUSINESS SEIZED. THE WORKERS CHARGE. LONDON, September 1. (Received Sept. 1, at 8.6 p.m.) The Morning Post’s Dublin correspondent reports that the Transport Union officials ana members, in consequence of firms’ non-payment of claims made by the union on behalf of dismissed employees, seized Messrs (Jeeves’ flour mill and bakery business in Draree, near Limerick, from which they are now selling flour, meal bread, and coal below the normal prices. Over the entrance to the premises appears the notification “ Bruree Soviet