TYRONE'S LURID SKY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18438, 23 March 1922, Page 5

TYRONE'S LURID SKY.

LOYALISTS’ HOMES BLAZING. Received March 22, 8.30 p.m. LONDON, March 21. The destruction of loyalists’ homes in Tyrone is widespread. The sky is lurid with the glare of burning homesteads. Some of the largest farms in the country have been fired. An aged man was shot while defending his home against incendiaries, who later burned the farm. . THE BURNING OF TYRONE. TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES MAY FOLLOW. HAS BRITAIN FORGOTTEN HER ULSTER SUBJECTS? Received March 22, 10.45 p.m. LONDON, March 22.

The Daily Telegraph's Belfast correspondent states: The new campaign of flying columns of the Republican army against loyalists in Tyrone has aroused intense excitement in the North and terrible consequences may follow. The people are asking whether Britain has forgotten that Ulstermen are still subjects of the King. Farmers in Tyrone are men of substance. Their well-kept farms are now a melancholy spectacle of ruin and desolation. Incendiarism is so widespread that the constabulary is quite incapable to cope with the situation. It is pointed out that the British Government has thus far lent no aid or protection to the border, which is left entirely to Ulster specials. Protestant families in the danger zones are vacating their homes, seeking shelter further north, or only visiting their homes in the daytime to tend the stock. RAIDERS BEATEN OFF.

LONDON, March 21.

A large force of the I.R.A. attacked loyalists’ houses in Tyrone near the frontier. Two houses were burned down. The raiders attacked Glendean Lodge, in Trillich, whose occupier organised defence, beating off the raiders, but his servant, who was a special policeman, was riddled with bullets.

BELFAST CARTERS CEASE WORK. LONDON, March 21. Belfast strikers have struck work as a protest against their insecurity owing to frequent shootings. Twentyseven carters have been shot and 147 injured during the disorders. A later cable states that the carters have abandoned their strike, further protection being assured.