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Show SNIPERS STILL , BUSY OESPHE i TiOPSlfllL t Soldiers Dispersed Looters and Fired Upon Disorderly Londonderry Crowds J LUND UN" DER 11 Y. June 2.". Lon- donderry, since Friday la.-il, the scene I of violent street warfare Uetwcen. u-; u-; ionisl, nalionafisi and Sinn Kein fac-j fac-j lions, today was approaching normal , conditions. Tho banks and many shops were open anil people ventured into ' tho streets The food supply wns 'short, however, and the town fclllj 1 was without gas. Fighting between thr warring fac lions since midnight was confined "1 ' sniping. i Snlieis Slill UiL?y. ' ! LUNDUN. June J.". Snipers were j busy in Londonderry during the past night, according to a Central Xews j dispatch from that city. Troops fired ' on disorderly elements several times I and also dispersed looters. At about midnight the- firing became be-came so intonse. that the searchlights I on the destroyer anchored in tho har- hor was turned on the city in an endeavor en-deavor to locate the men engaged in I tho fighting. I A former soldier named Austin was killed. Scries of Outrages. BANTRY. County Cork. Ireland, June 25. What was apparently a con-1 con-1 cened aeries of outrages against Sinn I Foiners occurred here last night, one death and the burning of several I homes and several shops resulting. I An attempt was made to burn stores i on tho quay where all ihe employes ! are Sinn Foiners. The residence of the recently elected chairman of th guardians of thi Sinn Fein" also was destroyed by fire.1 Kight to Decide. SCARBOROUGH, Eng.. June 25. At the labor parly conferonce here a resolution was adopted declaring that tho Irish people have the right lo decide for themselves what their form of government shall bo. An amendment to the resolution providing pro-viding for the giving of Ireland homo rule within tho empire was defeated. oo |