LAWLESS IRELAND.
BELFAST RIOTS RESUMED. POLICE AND CIVILIANS KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian end N.Z. Cable Association (Received June 14, 8.00 a.m.) LONDON. June 13. The riots were resumed at Belfast on Sunday night. Opposing crowds of loyalists and Sinn Feinert* stoned each other in the Y'ork Street neighbourhood. They fired revolvers and rifles from windows and the roofs of houses. Several bombs were thrown. Soldiers in armoured cars restored order. Constable Sturdy was fatally shot, as were also three civilians. About fifty persons were treated in the hospitals. Sniping between Loyalists and Ginn Feiners occurred in Kashmir Road. One Loyalist was killed and three were wounded. The disturbances may result in the cancellation of the King's visit to open the Ulster Parliament. Two Sinn Feiners, Timothy Murphy and Edward Punch, were sentenced to death at Limerick for levying war and for possessing arms. They were reprieved. and sentenced to imprisonment for life.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16452, 14 June 1921, Page 7
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