IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3489, 18 May 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

RIOTING IN LONDONDERRY.

TROOPS SEPARATE THE

FACTIONS.

LONDON, May 17.

Rioting at l..ondondel'l'y lasted until early in the morning. Troops were called out and separated the rival factions. They then drew cordons round the troubled areas and conducted a systeuiutic search for arms. Violence then gradually subsided. Firearms were used with alarniing frequency by both sides. Amongst the casualties there were three deaths. Others were seriously wounded. Large quantities of barbed wire are arriving in Ireland. This is believed To be connected with the new military preparations and blockhouses system. Lance patrols are now employed. in the west and south to prevent cattle driving. ‘

Considerable areas in the "west and south are being subjected to so-called Sinn Fein Courts, which are increasingly arrcsting, ‘trying and sentencing offenders for crimes.

OBJECT TO THEIR OVVN MEDICINE.

LONDON, 'May 17.

Slnu Fein hunger-strikers who were released from Wormwoofl "Scrubs and sent to :1. large hospital: became indignant. because of a. temp6‘i"?.ry shortage of food at the mid-day meal, and quifted the hospital in ii body, after reducing the nurses to tears by their unreasonableness. They have not. yet returned. The a,uthol*ities of the hos~ pifal say they have no power to compel prisoners to s‘i‘a,_v if dissatisfied.