Show III 1 Martial Matia Law Is b. Declared After Nineteen Killed BELFAST Aug 31 Martial Martial law was declared in Belfast at noon today Rioting which broke out between Orangemen and Catholics last week had been practically continuous for twenty-four twenty hours and was growing in intensity S The death list was nineteen and with more mor than The fighting assumed the thc aspect of a civil war Virtually tho the whole adult population including hundreds of women was gradually gradually grad grad- nally being drawn into the fray Heavy reinforcements of British troops were being rushel here from Dublin on OB a special train Sir Edward Carson leader of the tIle has issued issue an n appeal to all loyalists to cooperate in the restoration of order Never in the history of Belfast was there such disorders as pr prevailed yesterday Mobs r bs fought with wild fury women mixing with the men in the thc melees Girl workers fought like wildcats in one place parties attacking each other as they were going to work Unionist women charged on a number of or nationalist girls in Cork street while the nationalists made an attack on unionists in the Fills Pills Roads district REVOLVERS AND RIFLES USED The fhe rioting which previously had been limited to the shipyards shipyard district and the e quarter today had spread until it involved several se of the tile principal sections When the thc fighting first began the participants mostly employed cubs bricks or their lists fists but toda today revolvers and even a few rifles made their appearance Time and again soldiers sometimes supported by an armored car dashed in between groups of or combatants anti and with fixed bayonets pushed the thc opposing groups apart Several soldiers and anti anda antia a few policemen were wounded in su such h la he Sj A- A Ar r tb v TO DRIVE OUT CATHOLICS The Orangemen determined to drive all Catholics from Belfast just as they have from Lisburn and several small towns nearby arby are meeting with increasing resistance Nearly incendiary fires have ha been started and the property damage is estimated at close to Catholics are arc retaliating for destruction of their homes and business places place by setting fire to Orangemen's property The Tile situation is becoming more serious hourly I LONDON LONDONDERRY DERRY Aug Major Major Johnstone justice of the peace was assassinated at his home yesterday b by men who fired through a window The assassins escaped I CORK Aug 31 A A party part of armed men yesterday burned tho the magnificent country residence of Deputy Lieutenant of Cork County Joseph Pike near here The family was absent at the time |