DISORDER IN IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 199, 18 May 1920, Page 7

DISORDER IN IRELAND

. '____—« . LANCER PATROLS WPREVENT CATTLE DRIVING TRIALS IN SINN FEIN .■'.■■'' "COURTS" By Telegraph.—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. May 17, 8 .p.m.j \ • London. May 17. Large quantities of barbed' wire are arriving in Ireland. They are believed to be connected with the new military and. the blockhouse,system. Lancer patrols .are now employed in the West and South to prevent cattle driving.' Considerable areas in tho West | and 1 South are subjected to so-called Sinn 'Fein courts, which are' increasingly .arresting, tiding, .and 'sentencing offenders 'for crimes.—Aus.,-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' RIOTING aFhJNDONDERRY ■ ' i . " . i .'''.BETWEEN' SINN FEINERS AND . .UNIONISTS. ■' ■'. '■■ . . .London, May 10. : Rioting'lasting for' four hours occurred, in Londonderry oil Saturday r night between Sinn Peiners and Unionists. A hundred shot's were fired, and the police, • fixing bayonets, charged ,the rioters. ' Dec •tective , Moroney was fatally wounded, and a civilian was critically injured.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . (Eec. May 17,' 8 p.m.) •' '. ''..:■" London May 17. The rioting at Londonderry lasted until eally morning. Troops were called out, .and separated the rival factions. Thev then drew cordons. round the troubled areas, and conducted a Systematic search for arms. The violence then gradually subsided. Firearms were used with alarming frequency by both sides. Amongst the casualties there were three deaths, and others were seriously' wounded—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.' ' FOISMEB SINN FEINER SHOT, London, May 15. Nine men fatally ekpt fame's Dalton, a clerk, as iewas leaving an hc)':cl in Clare Street. Limerick, in daylight. .Dalton ••'was formerly a prominent Sinn Feiner. . Ho was shot in the'hand soma weeks ago, and afterwards received a warning, that "a bullet is awaiting Dalton, the spy."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn., SINN FEIN HUNGER-STRIKERS LEAVE HOSPITAL IN A BODY. . • (Eec.'May 17, B:p.m.) London May 17. . -The Sinn -Fein hunger-strikers who were/released from Wormwood Scrubs and sent ,fo a : large hospital became inidignant because of a temporary, shortage of food at the midday meal, and .quitted the hospital in a body,, after reducing the .nurses to tears .'at their unreasonableness. They, have not yet returned-. The authorities of the hospital say thuy .have no power to compel the .prisoners to'stay if they ..are .dissatisfied.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.. ■ -i __L. ' • '