IRELAND

Southland Times, Issue 19518, 18 May 1922, Page 5

IRELAND

A BELFST OUTRAGE FUNERAL PROCESSION FIRED ON SEVERAL PERSONS SHOT. (By Telegraph.—Press Aran.—Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, May 16. (Received May 17, 8.30 p.m.) At the funeral of Beattie, the murdered Belfast policeman, Sinn Feiners, without the least provocation, fired into the mourners following the coffin. Several persons were shot, and the clergy had a narrow escape. Women, and children in the streets were terror stricken and fled screaming, or lay in heaps on the ground. Military and police in the cars guarding the funeral turned and fired upon the attackers, who returned the fire. A man named Fadden, who was concerned in the firing, was pursued by an infuriated mob into a shop, where he was shot dead. DISTURBANCE OF TRADE TOTAL CESSATION THREATENED. . SEIZURE OF FACTORIES. (“The Timas”) LONDON, May 15. The Dublin Times’s correspondent reports that an urgent note of alarm concerning the effect of disorders on trade and commerce has been sounded by the Federation of Irish Commercial Travellers, who have issued a manifesto to the effect that their firms have notified that unless the disorders cease and a settlement is arrived at credit will be completely restricted, and consequent upon carrying companies declining liability for the care or delivery of goods a total cessation of trade will follow. Four more factories have been seized and are being worked by the employees.