THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1921, Page 2

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CADLE ASSOCIATION.

SERIOUS RIOT IN BELFAST. LONDON", November 20

There was a stormy week end at Belfast, .including several revolver fights, which culminated this evening in grave, armed rioting on the sea front district. Heavy firing was in progress for more than an hour. A large force of police, with machine gunners eventually restored order. ALDERMAN’S FUNERAL. LONDON, November 20. Alderman Barry, who was killed by a sentry, at an internment camp, was buried in a Republican plot at Cork Cemetery to-day in the presence of ten thousand, mainly 1.R.A., including representatives of De Valera, Lord Mayors of Cork and Dublin. The I.R. A. fired a volley at the graveside. ANNIVERSARY IN DUBLIN. LONDON, Nov. 21. An Irish Republican Army Force paraded twenty-five thousand strong in Dublin yesterday. It was the anniversary of the C.'roke Park shooting affair, the day of the firing on the crowd nt the football match in Dublin City, whereon many of their associates were killed. The force mustered in Rutland Square, in battalions, and thence marched to Glosnevin Cemetery, where wreaths were placed on the graves of the dead Sinn Feiuers. The march and the ceremony occupied two hours. While the demonstration was in progress some “Loyalists” remembered also that the day was the anniversary of the “Red” Sunday, whereon fourteen British officers were massacred in hotels and lodging houses in Dublin.