TERRORS OF BELFAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1922, Page 5

TERRORS OF BELFAST.

MOBE FIERCE SHOOTING. MANY KILLED IN STREETS. .TROOPS’ BAYONET CHARGE. By T«l«xraph.—Pt«m Aun—CoDyrigfct. Received Feb. 16, 7.35 pjn. London, Feb. 15. Fierce ehooting occurred in several districts of Belfast during the afternoon. Concealed snipers in Stanhope Street fired hundreds of shots, and the troops replied and made a bayonet charge. Six men entered the office of a mill and shot William Duffin, son of a leading linen merchant, whose only other son was killed in the war. Sinn Femen shot dead a special eonstable in New Lodge Road. The police shot and killed a mao crawling on the roof of a public house in York Street. Sniping continues in Belfast, many snipers being mere boys. This week’s casualty list includes 27 killed and 100 wounded. London, Feb. 15. Following are typical outrages in Belfast. A gunman fired into a tram filled with male and female factory The conductor was wounded in the back and the passengers were cut by broken gias>. William Waring, caretaker at an Orange Hall, was walking in ” Regent Street when a Catholic gunman knelt down, put his rifle to his shoulder, shot and killed Waring. A youth named Harper was similarly shot in full view of a tramcar loaded ■with people. Shot* were fired at ex-service men engaged in relaying a road in Belfast. One was killed and another wounded. The bomb outrage on skipping children was of the st horrible character. They were pla. ng in the moonlight and their parents were sitting at the door* of their houses looking on when a bomb was hurled through the air and a moment later the children lay In heaps in the roadside screaming and moaning, while agonised mothers sought out their mutilated offspring. Six are now dead.