THE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1922, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM

j AUnTBAI.I AN AND N.z. CAIII.P. ASsOi ....'OX. j i ' BELFAST BOMBARDMENT. i LONDON. May 26. I A battle is ra; ing to-day in the Bcl- ! fast West End, vliicli is isolated from j the other parts of the city by the fierce- : ! ness of the firing. Trams are suspend- ■ j ed on the Falls Road route, (which j I i-i the Catholic quarter of Belfast). An ; , Ulster “special” constable. named : : Murphy, was shot dead near the Falls! j Road, where Sinn Reiners massed ini | very great numbers. Three others were , | killed. i 1 Fighting continued nil (lav Icng in , | the Falls Road district. A Belfast, i ■ gang iinaded a shop and shot: John ; Rankin, tn assistant. An old man. ■ named ’"’olford was shot cn the ground ' that he had four sons in the f'ons'abu- ' j lary. Telford’s hands were held while ) 1 some murderers tired 15 shots into his

body in the presence of bis little grand- ;

dmitf.liter. ' Eighteen Protestants mid seven Bo- ! man Catholics were token to the lies- ; init.nl. the majority lieing wounded hv j i splinters from Sinn I'ein hoinlis. i An Irish Republican soldier mimed ! Korrellv was sentenced to live years at ; Belfast te-dav. He sold he war a sol- j dier of the Irish Hen”! lie. He would . not r n eo''iiise the court. ; The rwiekshire Regiment has rein- 1 forced the military at Belfast. ' A enrfew is being enforced throueh- ; i out the six Ulster counties between II j i o'clock nt night and six o’clock in the j morning.