BELFAST RIOTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1921, Page 5

BELFAST RIOTS.

RENEWAL OF. SHOOTING. MANY DEATHS. BOMB THROWN IN STREET. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.- —Copyrigtt. Received Nov, 23, 7.25 p.m. London, Nov. 22. Under cover of a fog, Belfast snipers renewed the attacks on men going to work this morning. One man was shot dead, and a woman was seriously wounded. During the fusillade a man aged 70 dropped dead from heart failure, due to fright. Later stray bullets killed two clerks in the labor bureau, and the remainder of the staff fled panic-stricken. A policeman was shot in the eye. Last night’s terrorism covered a wide area. Trams were diverted and military searchlights were used in an endeavor to locate the gunmen. To-day the police broke into an East Belfast house and found a man, his wife and daughter dead in bed, gas-poisoned through a bullet bursting a pipe. A workmen’s car, carrying seventy Unionists from a shipbuilding yard, was bombed in Corporation Street, Belfast. The side of the car was torn out, and three were killed and sixteen wounded. The affair caused a panic in the street. Another bomb was thrown and wounded twelve shipyard workers watching a fire in Newtown ards.