LAWLESS BELFAST.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1922, Page 5

LAWLESS BELFAST.

WIDESPREAD SHOOTING. TWO BOMBS THROWN. TROOPS USE MACHINE-GUN. "■ By Telegraph.—Preas Assn.—Copyright. London, March 5. There ■was much unrest in Belfast during the week-end and shooting was widespread on Sunday afternoon. An attempt was made to murder two constables in Donegal Street. Both were hit but not killed. Owen Hughes, a tram passenger, was shot dead while passing the sniping area. The police later saw the sniper run into an entry and concentrated there. Twelve men ran out and one was hit, but his comrades dragged him away. The military used, a machine-gun in Kent Street. Two bombs were flung from a window in Lanark Stfeet at midnight, wounding two sisters and a brother. One girl had a foot amputated. RAID ON LIMERICK. BY REPUBLICAN SOLDIERS. London, March 5. Four hundred Republican soldiers raided Limerick, with the object of supporting the mid-Limerick Brigade’s proclamation of fealty to the republic. THE TREATY WELCOMED. DEMONSTRATION IN DUBLIN. Received March 6, 5.5 p.m. London. March 5. Mr. Michael Collins (Minister for Finance in the Irish Provisional Government), speaking at a mammoth protreaty demonstration in Dublin, declared that the anti-treaty campaign had given de Valera and his party a jew jumping ground. The republic had been dropped while British troops were still in Ireland, hut now they had gone shouts for a republic had again been raised from a safe foothold. Mr. Collins said union with Ulster was safe on the establishment of a Free State, but destroy the Free State and all hopes of union will be destroyed. Enthusiasm marked the passage of a resolution favoring the treaty and the establishment of a Free State. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.