THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1921, Page 2

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RENEWED BELFAST RIOTING. LONDON, November 21. The rioting in Belfast was renewed to-day. I Some. snipers in the Newtonwards area sliot dead a workman named Hanna. proceeding to th,. shipyards. ! Another man was seriously injured. I The authorities are said to now have * a firm grip of the situation. ] An early “Curfew” probably will be I* re-imposed there to-night. A Belfast message states that the I rioting was again renewed to-day. The : workman going to the shipbuilding yards, who was shot, is dead, and two were wounded in retaliatory firing. Strong forces of police and military quelled the outbreak. 'An Irish Nationalist’s house was attacked and it was damaged before th t . police could intervene.

MORE RIOTING. LONDON, November 22. Further armed rioting occurred in Belfast City last night. The lamps ' uer,. extinguished in many of the streets which was a signal for the attackers to sweep the thoroughfares with bullets. The shooting became general at nine o'clock. It is not stated how the trouble began, but Unionists and Sinn Feiners are aoeusing each other of various provocations. The Sinn Feiners allege that the riots have l>een an organised attempt b v the Ultra-Unionists to compromise the Irish peac e negotiations in London ULSTER ANIMOSITY. LONDON, November 22. Mr Andrews, the Ulster Unionist, speaking at Comber, in County Dow n said: “Mr Chamberlain has endeavoured to load the dice as against Ulster. Ireland would never be really united, even under one Parliament,”