IRISH DISORDERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1920, Page 5

IRISH DISORDERS.

RIOT IN LONDONDERRY. MANY PEOPLE INJURED, ■ By IdlegMpb.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, June 20. In connection with the ontbreak of rioting, looting, and incendiarism which began in Londonderry on Friday night, it appears that a party of Unionists armed with rifles and revolvers assembled in the waterside district. Neighboring Catholic residents, fearing an attack, sent girl messengers across the river to summon help from the Sinn Feiners and Nationalists. Their arrival resulted in many street battles, the residents crawling out of the danger zone along the roofs. Tho troops dispersed the rioters, but sniping continued for three hours. Hundreds of soldiers and police patrolled the district on Saturday night, but more serious rioting broke out in a liew quarter. Many people were held up and attacked in the streets. Two fatalities occurred at the same door within five minutes. An Irish-American who served in the British Army was fatally shot down in a street, and two Sinn Feiners shot workmen entering a factory. A constable was held up and badly beaten by drunken men, who placed his body on a donkey-cart atftt drove to the hospital. Both sections of the rioters indulged in looting. Five were filled' and one hundred injured, ten seriously. The fire brigade was called out on Sunday afternoon, but- Sinn Feiners chased the firemen from the fire and then drove the engine to the Sinn Fein quarter.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. NIGHT ATTACK ON BARRACKS. A LIVELY ENCOUNTER. Received June 21, 9.5 p.n\. London, June 21. Two hundred Sinn Feiners made a desperate night attack on barracks at Farran, fourteen miles from Cjyrk. Using gelignite they blew up a corner of the barracks, and followed this up svith a fusillade of revolver ftnd rifle shots. The garrison pluckily held out until reinforcements . arrived, and put the attacker* to ftigftt. The Sinn Feiners abandoned three motor cars. The 'barracks wore wrecked.—Aufs.N.Z. Cable Assn. Obstinate railwaymen. POSITION STATED BY MR. THOMAS. WORKERS v. MILITARISM. . Received June 21, S.lO p.m. London, June ,20. Mr. J. H: Thomas, secretary of the fiailwaymen's Union, in a said that the Irish railwayman who interviewed the Premier had decided that, whatever the consequences may be, they would not give way. If Ireland were running with blood next week, and if the military succeeded in exterminating the railwaymen, there would still remain the Irish problem fo Scflve. . He asked the Irish workers to realise the consciences of starting a fight against the machine-guns of militarism. The trade unionists and the Government had national obligations.— Reuter Service. SINN FEIN OUTRAGES. MURDERS AND DESTRUCTION. Received June 21, 1.40 p.m. _ London, June 20. An official return of Sinn Fein outrages from January 1, 1919, to April 30, 1920, includes forty-one murders of policemen and officials, and six civilians. There ,were 843 -incendiary fires, of which 294 occurred in April.—Reuter Service. *•