UNEREST IN BELFAST

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14609, 7 March 1922, Page 5

UNEREST IN BELFAST

WEEK-END CASUALTIES. TWO PERSONS KILLED. , Cress Association—Electric Telegraph— Copyright (Received Tuesday, 8.55 a.m.) ** LONDON, Monday. The week-end casualties at Belfast vveie two killed and twenty-live woundod. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. MURDER IN A TRAM. (Received Tuesday, 8.55 a.m.) J LONDON, Monday. Owen Hughes, who was shot dead ia a tram, was deliberately murdered. ~ His assailants escaped in the confu-* si on. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. VANMAN SHOT. (Received Tuesday, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, Monday. Three men entered the Belfast Co-op-* erative Society’s premises in Falls road and ordered a vanman named Kidd to go outside. On Kidd refusing, he was shot and left dying.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn-

A DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE. (Received Tuesday, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, Monday. At Swiiigford, Mayo, a disguised mart entered the home of Sergeant O’Dowd, who was sitting with his wife at th& fireside. The intruder fired at 0 ’Dowd. The latter ’s wife sprang up and held a chair between her husband and the intruder. The latter fired through the chair, and then shot Mrs 0 ’Dowd, piercing her lung. Two other shots struck her Tiusband. Mrs O’Dowd is in a critical, and her husband in a serious, condition, but both are expected to recover. —Aus and N.Z. Cable x\ssn. MORE HEAVY FIGHTING. (Received Tuesday, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, Monday -''" Renewed heavy fighting is in Belfast. One person was killed and fifteett wounded, including two soldiers.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. _ _ ( TREATY DEMONSTRATION. LONDON, Monday.

Mr. Michael Collins, speaking at a 1 mammoth pro-treaty demonstration in Dublin, declared that the anti-treaty campaign had given Mr. De Valera and his party a new jumping-ground. The Republic had been dropped while the British troops were still in Ireland, but now they had gone shouts for a Republic had again been raised from a safe foothold. Union with Ulster was safe on the establishment of the Free State, but destroy the Free State and alij hopes of union would be destroyed. Enthusiasm marked the passage of ai resolution favouring the treaty and thej establishment of the Free State. —Aus* and N.Z. Cable Assn.