IN IRELAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1921, Page 2

IN IRELAND.

IUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

DESTRUCTION OF BRITISH BUILDINGS.

LONDON, June 12. During the week end r,lm Irish rebels indulged in destruction. A mansion at tariff, in County Clare, was destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £IOO,OOO. Two other residences and a workhouse were destroyed in the same vicinity.

Four coastguard stations were also burned in Clare. Three out of four railways in Donegal were closed by Sinn Feiners, who also stopped motor transport by stealing and destroying cars. The authorities have retaliated. They suspended the steamer service between Londonderry and Donegal ports substituting railways. They are saying that if the Sinn Feiners don’t want the railways they don’t want tV steamers ■V 1 • either.

The telegraph and telephone communications are nearly wiped out. The rel>el portions of County Donegal are completely isolated. David Fitzgibbon has been murdered at Liscarroll, County Cor it. Two exservice men were murdered in Dublin Woodpark.

RIOTING IN BELFAST. 'LONDON, June 12 Serious rieting occurred ; n the York Street District, Belfast. The police were outnumbered but many rioters were 'wounded by revolvers. Police reinforcements ended the trouble. 8 RIOTS AT BELFAST. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) * LONDON, June 13 Riots were resumed at Belfast on Sunday night. Opposing crowds of Loyalists and Sinn Feiners stoned each other in Cork Street and neighbourhood,.and fired revolvers and rifles from windows and roofs of houses. Several bombs were thrown. Soldiers in .armoured ears restored order. Constable Sturdy was fatally shot, also three civilians, and about fifty were' treated in the hospitals. Sniping between Loyalists and Sinn Feiners occurred in Kashmir road. One Loyalist was killed and three Wounded The disturbances may result in the cancellation of the King’s visit to open Parliament.

Two Sinn Feiners, Timothy Murph and Edward Punch, were sentenced to death at Limerick for levying war and possessing arms. They were reprieved and sentenced to imprisonment for life.