TURMOIL IN IRELAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18557, 18 May 1922, Page 5

TURMOIL IN IRELAND

TEADE OF THE COUNTET THREATENED. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS’ MANIFESTO. URGENT NOTE OP ALARM. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, May 15. The Dublin correspondent of The Times reports that an urgent note of alarm concerning the effects of the disorders on trade and commerce has been sounded by the Federation of Irish Commercial Travellers. This body has issued a manifesto to the effect that its firms will be notified that unless the disorders cease and a settlement is arrived at credit will be completely restricted, and that consequent upon the carrying companies declining liability for the care or delivery of goods a total cessation of trade will follow.—Times. THE SOVIET SYSTEM. FURTHER FACTORIES SEIZED. LONDON, May 15. Four niore factories have been seized and are being worked by the employees.— A. and N.Z. Cable. SHOCKING SCENE IN BELFAST. FUNERAL PROCESSION ATTACKED. LONDON, May 16. (Received May 17, at 8.30 p.in.) At the funeral •of Constable Beattie, the murdered Belfast policeman, Sinn Feiners, without the least provocation, fired into the mourners following the coffin. Several persons were shot, and the clergyman had a narrow escape. The women and children in the streets were terror-stricken, and fled screaming, or lay in heaps on the ground. The military police cars guarding the funeral turned and fired upon the attackers, who returned the fire. A man named Fadden concerned in the firing was pursued bv the infuriated mob into a shop, where he was shot dead. —A. and N.. Cable.