IRISH TURMOIL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 20 May 1922, Page 5

IRISH TURMOIL.

Press Assn. —By TeL —Copyright.

London, May 19, Incendiaries set on fire six warehouses in widely separated areas in Belfast between seven and nine o’clock in the morning. A clothing factory was destroyed and others heavily damaged. Protestants and Roman Catholics alike were victims of rival murder gangs in Belfast. A man was shot in the street and died in a few hours. Two men boarded a tramcar and shot dead a youth sitting on the top deck. The murderers escaped though there were 60 passengers on the car. In the case already cabled of two flax dressers going to their employment, several men took seats behind them and shots rang out and the men ran downstairs carrying smoking revolvers.

The passengers, who thought the firing came from outside, were crouching on the floor. The conductor ran upstairs and found two flax dressers huddled on the floor.

Sir J. G. Butcher sought leave to move the adjournment of the House of Commons in order to draw attention to “the open and avowed robbery of British subjects in Southern Ireland and the failure of the Imperial Government to make representations to the Provisional Government.” The Speaker refused the motion on the ground that it was a matter for the Provisional Government.