THE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1921, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. REPLY ON WEDNESDAY. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 2(i. Government are sending a reply to Do Valera on Wednesday, ’ BOMB OUTRAGE IN BELFAST. LONDON. September 20. Two bombs were thrown in Belfast and killed two and wounded 36 persons. The iinlicc and military final into ;!io croud, wounding many LONDON. September 20. A thiid hr-iuh throe n in IhTlasl injured five. The death roll is now four TERMS FOR fR ELAND. (Received This Day at II.3(1 a.m.) LONDON. S'Vteinber 26. A Coal it 'on member, writing in the Aberdeen ioiirnal. reveals that before submitting the offer to de Valera, Hon. Lined George .privately (hshsol tielull tonus to Mr .\s-,oith. The latter was so imtucss"! by the geie-rosit v ' I tin 1 terms, that he u.onrdi Itely n-sltted lli.it. Lloyd of hi- heartiest approval, LONDON. S.pt. Criminals tire having an unhappy time in Ireland 1 H-tweali the regular and Sinn Fein police force. Bands of the hitter hunt down highway robbers, burglars and other male lactors. 1 ristmers convicted by Sinn I'ein tribunals are generally ordered to leave the eoiintrv.

I.ELEAST WEEK-END. WORST ON RECORD. , Received This Day at 12.20 p.m.) London, s.-pt. 20. The week-end in lidfast was one of the worst in its history. Rival ni"bs. particuiarlv m the cast end, continued hitter lighting throughout Sunday frenzied women replenishing the fighters with ammunition. Attempts to stop it were futile. Police and soldiers tired into tlic mobs again and again. and usd Lewis guns but tlic only effect was to silence the gunfire momentarily as in a few miiiuLes it resumed with renewed vigor. Gunmen sniped the ambulance removing those injured. Rmnli explosions caused fresh retaliations by imposing forces. Einally eight additional armoured ears appeared and patrolled the streets pumping lead into the houses infested bv snipers. MILITARY CONTROL. (Received This Day at 2 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 2th The military now control the eaart end of lidfast City, two battalions coming to reinforce the garrison, f 1 el ino runs high and no on,, knows where the next outbreak will be, (nit the strong display of military kept Ike storm centres quiet. Troops are . reding sand-hag defences as a proto-noil against snipers. The “Daily Telegraph” Belfast corespondent says Sinn Eein gunmen on Sunday night armed with rifles and carrying ammunition bandoliers, fired volley after volley into Unionists in Newton Hoad. The latter put up a stubborn, but ineffectual defence, with stones. In some eases there were bind to hand struggles between 1 nernisis and Sinn Reiners tvlio wor,. able to get to grips. The disorders lasted two hours, during which frenzied >v< men folk supplied Sinn Fein gunmen with mor,t ammunition. When the Slim Reiners threw two bombs, which burst harmlessly, the Unionists retaliated with another, which failed to explode. Finally a curious noise was beard and was found to be due to stones, rolling down the. roof of a bouse in Nowtonards Hoad into the street. These stones were thrown by Sinn Reiners in order to attract a. crowd. The ruse succeeded and a large pally of Unionists collected and a few moments later a big Ixnnb was thrown. Some of the crowd saw it rolling down the roof and tried to give a warning, but the missile fell with a terrific explosion, splinters falling over a wide area causing indescribable confusion. Some wounded ran, and others lay in the streets, their shrieks mingling with the cries of terrified women and children who had been attracted by curiosity. The Sinn Reiners, overjoyed at the success of their ruse cheered, cten when the wounded were being placed in ambulances. At least sixty wounded were sent to the hospital during the evening. The bomb outrage resulted in Unionist reprisals to-day. A band of ship yard workers whose comrades bad suffered through the bomb explosion ivqnt bo Queen’s Island recreation ground, which is in process of formation and attacked Nationalists work ing there, shooting one and badly beating two others.