UNREST IN BELFAST
SHOOTING WIDESPREAD. MANY OUTRAGES REPORTED. Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Monday, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday. There was much unrest in Belfast during the week-end. The shooting was widespread. On Sunday afternoon an attempt was made to murder two constables in Donegal street. Both were hit, but not killed.
; Owen Hughes, a tram passenger, was shot dead while passing the sniping area. Thc police later saw a sniper run into a building. They concentrated their tire there and twelve men ran out. One was hit, but his comrades dragged him away. The military used machine gnus in Kent street.
Two bombs were flung through a window in Lanark street at midnight, wounding two sisters and a brother. One of the girls was so injured that it was found necessary for her to have a foot amputated.—Aus, and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14608, 6 March 1922, Page 5
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