IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1920, Page 3

IN IRELAND.

AnfeTKALIAN (S' -N.Z. CABl.fi ASSOCIATION]

fatal rioting, (Receved this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 20

In connection with the outbreak of rioting and incendiarism which began in Londonderry on Friday night, it appears. that a party of Unionists armed with rifles and revolvers assembled in a waterside district.

Neighbouring Catholic residents fearing an attack sent girl messengers across the river to summon help from some Sinn Feiners and Nationalists. Their arrival resulted in many street battles, and residents had to crawl out of the danger zone along the roads. Troops dispersed the rioters, hut sniping continued for three hours. Hundreds of soldiers and police patrolled the district on Saturday niglit, but more serious rioting broke out in a new

quarter. Many people were held up and attacked in the streets and two fatalities occurred at the same door within five minutes, . . An Irish-Ameriean who served in the British army was fatally shot down in the street. Two Sinn Feiners shot a workman en_ tering a factory. , A constable wa s held up and badly beaten by drunken men who placed the body on a donkey cart and drove it to the hospital. Both sections" of ""rioters indulged in looting. Fivo were killed and one bun. dred injured, ten seriously. The Fire Brigade was called out on Sunday afternoon, but Sinn Feiners chased'the firemen from the fire, and drove the engine into Sinn Fein quarters.