IRISH DISORDERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1920, Page 5

IRISH DISORDERS.

AN ALL-NIGHT BATTLE. FIGHTING IN LONDONDERRY By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—CorjniU Received June 20, 5.5 p.m. London, June 19. Serious rioting, lasting all night, occurred in Londonderry. Unionist ex-soldiers engaged in a battle with stones with Sinn Feiners, and many women participated on both sides. There was indiscriminate rifle and revolver shooting, and there were several casualties. The police were powerless to interfere. The situation improved at midnight on the arrival of troops. The Unionists guarded the Carlisle bridge, thU9 preventing numbers of Sinn Feiners returning to their homes. Sinn Feiners attempting to cross the river in boats were driven back by rifle bullets, and compelled to billet themselves with friends. The troops, in the meantime, are diligently searching pedestrians for arms.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MAIL TRAIN HELD UP. Received June 20, 11.5 p.m. London, June 19. A large armed party, disguised as Sinn Feiners, held up ithe Dublin-Cork mail train at Charleville, and, at the point of a revolver, removed two bags of official mails- The passengers were frightened, but not molested.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. J SINN FEIN CRUELTY. London, June 19. Sixteen Sinn Feiners attacked two young ladies at Castletown, in County Cork, and cut off their hair because they entertained two military officers. The party afterwards attacked the officers, burned their car, and flung the girls' hair into the flames. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.