RIOTS IN CORK

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 43, 14 November 1919, Page 7

RIOTS IN CORK

INCENSED TROOPS OUT OF. HAND

UGLY INCIDENTS

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, November 11. Thero has been. Tcnowed rioting at Cork. Two hundred men of tho Shropshire. Regiment proceeded in a body from Uio barracks, burst through tho cordon of police and attacked the roughs with bolts. Tho roughs replied with stones, and all the available polico were summoned, but were unable to restore order in spite of numerous charges. A large force of trooja was brought to the streets and established cordons, but tho fighting moved to other quarters, and was always fiorce. Eventually armed pickets separated tho Shropshires and escorted them to barracks. There wore some, ugly incidents, and a number of revolver shots wero fired. The Provost Marshal wts wounded. In eome oases the mob chased the soldiers into theatres and hotels. The Shropshires invaded the railway station, smashing all tho glass. Tho (lamago to property is extensive. The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent states that tho officer eonimandinpf tho troops prepared to firo a volley, but tho police inspector begged for a. last ohaTgo to clear tho streets—Aus.-N.Z.-Cablo Assn.

THE RATD ON SINN FEIN PARLIAMENT.

Dublin, November ll._ At the police raid on the Sinn. Fein Parliament, nine people, including John O'Mahoney, John Hayes, and Frank Lawless, Sinn Fein members of tho British House of Commons, wero arrested.— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.