IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1921, Page 5

IRELAND.

BELFAST RIOTS CONTINUED. SCENES AT A FUNERAL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. London, June 14. Rioting was resumed in Belfast last night in the streets. Snipers protected by sandbags fired from windows and housetops. Two dead were picked up in the street as well as wounded persons. Sinn Fein claims that in’ the ItTat six months in Cork County the deaths among the crown forces amounted to a thousand. Dublin Castlo says it is less than 300 for the whole of Ireland. Disgraceful scenes took place in Belfast during the funeral of Constable Sturdy, who was killed on Sunday. As the procession passed the Sinn Fein quarter women and girls jeered at the coffin. There were other unseemly demonstrations as the constables were returning from the funeral. A Sinn Fein crowd attacked the constables, who opened fire. Several Sinn Feiners were wounded and a girl killed. Sinn Fein incendiaries burned down several buildings in connection with the water supply including the valve well house in Silen’s Valley. The damage is estimated at £30,'000. Though the water supply is dislocated the Water Board is able to get water from other sources. An attempt to wreck a troop train at Dublin by the removal of rails was frustrated, though a goods train was derailed.