NOT SO GRAVE.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1920, Page 5

NOT SO GRAVE.

SITUATION IN LONDONDERRY. *HORE TROOPS ARRIVE. 3f ftfimib.'-nMf a«il—Cotyrijht. Beeeived Jane 25, 5.5 p.m. London, Jane 24. : The arrival of a considerable number cf troops baa eased the situation in Jondonderry. Sniping and looting have decreased. 'ijfrtßgements have been made to ac•tafinodats aa additional four thousand vAUttt. * - Btetn measures were adopted in the evening. The troops fired machine-guns tt. Sinn .Fein snipers perched in trees, <a*d it b believed fifteen were killed. A woman standing in her own doorway waa.Aot dead, whilst many were woundtlt- xTbe gas supply stopped at five o'clock in the morning. > ttttte .people ventured into the streets to-day. Several more deaths occurred from random shooting. There hate been many minor outrages ttgwofhoub the country, including the * wfihg of another barracks. Cafainat Logue, speaking at Dublin, •aid he bad received a warning of the time appointed for his death. He was ■ttankful, because it gave him time, to ' -prepare. Be had never been a politician, ana kid SeVer said a word to offend '; anybody, whatever his i. gion.—Aus.- ' $X '&ble Assn.' LOYAL RAILtfAYMEN. • TO CARRY TROOPS -AND MUNITIONS. jft ~ Beeeived June 25, 8 p.m. L .don, June 25. Meeting! of railwaymen throughout Ulster carried resolutions pledging fajffiuelvw to support th Government and handle any munitions and cafty

Iroops.-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable /ssn.