IRISH PROBLEM.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1921, Page 5

IRISH PROBLEM.

THE BELFAST RIOTS. '■> AN OFFICIAL REPORT. 1 ATTACKS ON CATHOLICS., By Telegraph.— Press Assn—Copyright. London, Sept. 27. An official communique relating to the Belfast outbreak states that at eight o’clock on Monday morning intimidators forced Catholic dock laborers to leave work at Queen’s Wharf. At 11 o’clock the mob attacked the Catholic workers employed on the football ground, and one worker was shot. At three o’clock in the afternoon the mob forced Catholic workers to leave the brick works. The Westminster Gazette’s Belfast correspondent states: “To doubters as to the responsibility for the disorders I commend the official report, which describes ten incidents between six in the morning and ten in the evening. In nine of these Catholics were the victims; in the tenth both sides fired.”

Colonel Carter Campbell has been appointed Military Governor of Belfast m supreme charge of the soldiery and constabulary. Orders have been issued for the immediate remobilisation of all grades of the special police. The Northern Government is organising a civic committee to work in conjunction with the police and military in the various storm centres.

Colonel Campbell has issued a proclamation prohibiting the assembly of more than three or four persons in the riot area. Extra troops have been drafted in to occupy buildings in, and to ring round the disturbed zone. NOTE TO DE VALERA. ITS TENOR FORECASTED. London. Sept. 27. It is understood that the Government’s Note to Mr. De Valera, while firmly declining to recognise any claim to sovereignty, welcomes a conference with Sinn Fein delegates in order to discuss in what way Ireland can best realise her self-governing ideals within the Empire. Mr. Townley, Coalitionist, telegraphed to Mr. Lloyd George at Gairloch: “In the event of further concessions to Mr. De Valera without Parliamentary sanction I cannot continue to support the Government.”