SCENE AT FUNERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1922, Page 5

SCENE AT FUNERAL.

A SINN FEIN OUTRAGE. MOURNERS SHOT. A FIGHT FOLLOWS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 17, 8.30 p.m. London, May 16. At the funeral of Beattie, the murdered Belfast policeman, Sinn Feiners, without the least provocation, fired into the mourners following the coffin and several persons were shot and the clergy had a narrow escape. Women and children in the streets were terror-stricken and fled screaming, or lay in heaps on the ground. Military and police cars guarding the funeral turned and fired upon the attackers, who returned the fire. A man ■named Fadden, who was concerned in the firing, was pursued by an infuriated mob into a shop, where he was shot dead.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. UNSETTLED CONDITIONS. London, May 15. The Dublin correspondent of the Tijnes Reports that an urgent note of alarm concerning the effects of disorders on trade and commerce has been sounded by the Federation of Irish Commercial Travellers, who have issued a manifesto to the effect that their firms be notified that unless disorders cease and a settlement is arrived at credit will be completely restricted and, consequent upon carrying companies declining liabilities for the care or delivery of goods, a total cessation of trade will follow. Four more factories have been seized and are being worked by the employees.