IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3534, 23 July 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

FURTHER DISTURBANCES. Received 8.55. ( LONDON, July 21. There have been serious disturbances in the Belfast, shipping yards. Unionist workers held meetings and resolved to boycott the Sinn Feiners and refuse to work, with them. Free fights followed. A number of persons were thrown into the river and roughly handled. Some were sent to hospital, though there are no serious cases. The troops were called out in the evening on account of Sinn Fein crowds sacking the spirit shops in Belfast. The troops fired over the heads of the crowd which' dispersed.

CORK ASSIZES BUSINESS ABANDONED.

LONDON, July 21

The entire criminal business at the Cork Assizes was abandoned owing to the absence of jurors. Four men i n Cork attacked two girls because they walked in company with soldiers. The assailants cut the girls hair off. They cleared the public from the streef during the incident.

A large crowd of Larkin/s sympathisers, armed with revolvers, occupied the Dublin Corporation fish markets and ordered the workers to cease work as a protest against Larkin's arrest. The markets were closed. Thousands of dockers are parading the streets. BELFAST RIOTING. Received' 11.5. LONDON, July 22. Three persons, including one woman, were killed in the renewed rioting -at Belfast; thirty-seven are in hospital, and were arrested. Troops now control Falls Road and the Sandy Row districts, where spasmodic firing continues.