BELFAST OUTBREAKS

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 55, 28 November 1921, Page 5

BELFAST OUTBREAKS

UNIONIST FEELING MUCH INFLAMED. London, November 25.

The. Belfast outbreaks are causing the gravest apprehension, and engendering a feeling in tho Ulster Cabinet prejudicial lb amicable consultations with t.io Southerners. Sir James Craig has been warned from Belfast that public feeling among the. Unionists is so inflamed that a frightful conflagration may be expected at any moment. Extra troops and hundreds of special constables have

arrived, and elaborate precautions are being taken, to safeguard the tramcars. The week’s death-roll is twenty-four.— Aus.-N.Z. A QUIETER DAY. (Rec. November 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, Novem'ber 25. Belfast is quieter to-day. Tho Lancashire > Fusiliers have arrived from Dublin and strong forces with armoured cars patrolled the streets. Spasmodic firing was resumed this afternoon and a man was killed and a woman dangerously wounded. Later a harbour constable on duty at tho docks was shot dead. The death-roll is now twenty-six. According to the “Daily Telegraph’s” Belfast correspondent, the most recent shootings have destroyed any vestige of a chance of Ulster compromising. Unionists unanimously regard the outrages as part of a plan aimed at making Government in Ulster impossible. 'lhe feeling against Sinn. Fein was never more intense, and it is hopeless to expect Ulster to enter a Parliament controlled’ by Sinn Fein. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. November 28, 0.15 p.m.) London, January 27. A Belfast message declares that Sinn Feiners murdered the dock _ constable, whose name was McHenry, in revenge for his disclosure of a plot to bomb ferry boats, which were heavily laden with shipyard workers. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. London, November 26. General Macready has arrived in Belfast. The Lord Mayor has announced that additional troops have been promised if necessary. The corporation has decided to coyer the tramcar windows with wire netting as la protection against- bombs.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. LIBERAL VIEWPOINT (Rec. November 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 26. Mr. H. H. Asquith, addressing a Liberal mass meeting at Newcastle, declared that Liberals would not he parties, for the sake of a corner of Ulster, to the coercion of the great mass of the Irish people-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AGAINST SECRET DIPLOMACY (Rec. November 28, 0.15 a.m.) London, November 27. Mr. J. H. Thomas, speaking at a Labour demonstration at Derby, said: Before we could embark on another war in. Ireland, the people of this country Should know the facts and be satisfied that every other means has been exhausted.” He declared that Labour stood against secret diplomacy.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. HUNGER-STRIKING SINN FEINERS (Rec. November 27, 11-5 p.m.) London, November 26. The hunger-striking Sinn Fein prisoners have been transferred to English prisons.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.