SINN FEIN CRIMES.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1921, Page 5

SINN FEIN CRIMES.

RIOTS IN BELFAST. GRAVE SITUATION. I THE TOTAL CASUALTIES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright London, Nov. 23. The situation is graver in Belfast, and the fighting has spread to districts hitherto untouched. The police and military have been, increased. Armed men are entering public houses tenanted by Catholics, and one publican has been killed and two wounded. Tuesday’s casualties were ten killed, 60 wounded and sent to hospital. Belfast is quieter to-day, though a man named Blunton, in charge of dock laborers, was shot dead. Received Nov. 24, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 23. Gunmen attacked the tramcars in York Street, Belfast, this afternoon. Two cars were riddled. The military engaged the attackers, one woman being killed and four men wounded. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. Received Nov. 24, 9 p.m. London, Nov. 23. The total Belfast casualties are 16 killed ‘ and 83 wounded. To-day’s casualties ■ were five dead and thirteen wounded, including two publicans killed during a mob’s raid upon licensed premises. Received Nov. 25, 12.5 a.m. London, Nov. 24. ’Hie Daily News’ Belfast correspondent states it is certain that the man who bombed the tramcar was a Catholic Nationalist or a Sinn Fein sympathiser. The Press and Ulstermen generally are disposed to assume that Tuesday’s rioting was caused by Sinn Feiners.

GAOL SET ON FIRE. FIERCE FIGHT FOLLOWS. SEVERAL WOUNDED. Received Nov. 24, 7.25 p.m. London, Nov. 24. Forty Sinn Fein prisoners set fire to Galway gaol to-day, as a protest against restrictions imposed in consequence of the escape of internees elsewhere. They burned a nunrber of Jieds and a quantity of bedding in two ceils, which involved the left wing. They afterwards overpowered the warders, seized their keys and fled to the topmost storey of the right wing. They destroyed an iron staircase and barricaded themselves in a room with six warders, who were taken as hostages. Military fire-fighters extinguished the flames promptly, after which a strong force of police ascended the only remaining staircase and attacked the incendiaries. who were arrested after a very fierce fight, in which five warders • and five Sinn Seiners were wounded.—Aus.NJK. Cable Assn. SINN FEIN PRISONERS ESCAPE. London, Nov. 23. Forty-four political prisoners at Kilkenny escaped through a tunnel having 'an exit on a public thoroughfare. The escapees include Delabunty. The escapees bored a tunnel under the gaol into the centre of the gaol street, where pedestrians were amazed to see the crust of earth breaking and two prisoners emerging from a hole. The latter ordered the dumbfounded witnesses to stand back and commandeered a nearby cottage, in which they imprisoned the onlookers. After this the remainder of the prisoners came out from the tunnel. When the last man was out an alarm was raised and military larries quickly appeared. The whole of the countryside was in a ferment, but the darkness aided th? escapees, who took to fields where the lorries could not follow.