IRELAND.

Timaru Herald, Issue 170307, 1 September 1920, Page 7

IRELAND.

APPEAL FOE, MB, McSWEENEY. j FROM! LABOUR LEADERS. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. A».-tralian and N..2. C:iU'U Assam. Received v .55 p.m., Aug. 31st. LONDON, -vug. 30. Laoour leaders, representing all organised British labour, appealed to -Mr Lloyd Ueorge to "do the oig thing" and release Mr Me.Sueeney. Sir James Long telegraphed to Lord Stamfordiiam retpjusting the King tvi remove his knighthood, owing to the treatment of Mr lUeSweenoy and other hunger-strikers.

(Mr James .Long was knighted in 1910. tie is chairman of tiio Cork J-larl>our Commissioners and a menroer of tlio Cork University College uo/ciiiing body.; KIOTIXG IX BELFAST. U F,M A RKABLE CUXMTI 3XS. Keceived 9.0 p.m., Aug. 3jst. Kifting continues m JJelfiir, in half a dozen centres. .Rival mobs are setting iiro to shops and loofng others. Four were, killed and 53 woimciul during the morning, including a voraan, killed by a revolver shot, and a child of eleven killed while trying to get homo to lunch. Though the Sinn Feiners are outnumbered many arc armed with revolvers, while the Unionists have only paving stones and rivets. Kidneyshaped pavers, weighing apiece, are piled up ready for attack or defence. Additional troops were ordered out. The police repeatedly made buloii charges. As men and women workers had (.:> I run the gauntlet of street tiring and baton charges heforo they reached workshops and offices, most of them closed down, and the workers returned home and joined the rival mobs, thus increasing tho confusion. Distressing scenes were witnessed in the Catholic quarter. Many families, | taking advantage of any lull in the rioting, put their furniture into lurries or handcarts and moved to quieter districts, tho families walking behind tlie carts.

BELFAST AN INFERNO. Received 10.-10 n.m.. Aug. 31st. DUBLIN, Aug. ISO. Belfast is a veritable inferno of strife and riot. Never before have such scenes been witnessed. Fighting proceeds all round ihe clock. Business is suspended and shops burricaded. Armoured cars with police patrol areas, but no sooner do they get control in one area than fighting, intense and ferocious, breaks out in another. Sinn Feiners have been tho attackers to-day. A bad melee followed then stono-tlnowing .it workmen's tram ears early in tho morning. Stones new in all directions, and for tho remainder of the day the streets were delivered to groat mobs of Protestants and Catholics, who harass tho soldiers and police. The confusion was rendered worse by the screams of terrified women and girls. These have been prominent combatants, descending to hair pulling. Indeed their aggressiveness even excelled tho men's.