IRISH WARFARE.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1922, Page 5

IRISH WARFARE.

TERROR IN THE CITIES. —■i BELFAST’S RED DAY. FIGHTINC IN DUBLIN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Received April 21, 5.5 p.m. London, April 21. Fighting in Belfast was of a desperate character, and continued throughout the evening. Rival gunmen came boldly into the open and fired at each other until their ammunition was exhausted. Traffic was held up, and tram services were diverted over a wide area. Several were ‘killed and wounded in the Shortstrand district. The situation in Belfast was most critical during the night. The casualty roll totalled five killed and fifteen wounded. A bomb was thrown in the Ballymacarrett district, which injured a passing woman but otherwise did no harm. The Irish Labor Party has proclaimed a 24-hour strike, commencing on Monday, throughout Ireland, as a protest against militarism, and the failure of politicians to come to an agreement. London, April 20. During seven hours of ceaseless shooting, cold-blooded murders and incendiarism in Belfast, four Catholics and one Protestant were killed, six Catholics and one Protestant badly injured. The silence after curfew was punctuated by shootings, and volleys at dawn heralded another red day. There was heavy fighting in Dublin at midnight, machine-guns, rifles and revolvers being used. The provisional Government’s offices were attacked from both sides, but they were not tenanted. The conference between Messrs. Collins and de Valera at the Dublin Mansion House met without result and was again adjourned for a week. No basis of agreement was revealed.