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Show I MILITARY SHOOTS DOWN IRISH RIOTERS 1 BO!' OEM AND ! SIX WOUNDED AS TROOPS EIRE : Mobs Attack on Police Station Ends Fatally; Hunger Strikers Weak BRITISH STEAMSHIPS VICTORIOUS IN N. Y. Secretary Colby Gives Sharp: Answer to Sympathizers Who Visit His Office BELFAST, Aug 2S (My The As-j spclated Press i The- hull tan ftrd. on rioters again tonight, killing at; least one and wounding six, one serl-i . OUslyl. The troops fired in an effort j to protect the police station, attacked I by a mob. Disturbances were report- ed In several sections. fVTicn the soldiers reached the police po-lice station in an armored ear they were in! with stones. The police and military dispersed the mob. Many individual in-dividual attacks were reported. STRlKKltS WEAKER. CORK. Vug JS Today was ihe 19th day of a hunger strike bj a dozen doz-en Sinn Fein prisoners In the citv jail ami their condition was said to be grave. Relatives have gathered daily out-! side the prison to vent their grief The j strikers appear determined, as was etyinced by their refusal yesterday to i take water because ihey believed f ood i substances had been addeil to It. JIM. HI. MU.RS UAH'. LONDON. Aug lis. Cameron High- lander troops Stationed at Queens-town, Queens-town, who broke quarters last night and Invaded stores and dwellings of Sinn Fciners there, were Induced by liieir superior ofQberfl about midnight to return to their huts according to reports reaphlng here today. These advices staled that all the shop win-; dows In the principal streets were smashed and there was much oilier damage. BRITISH WIN OUT. NEW kk. Aug. 2&.-r-Brltlsh ste:unshlp lines apparently won a victory vic-tory today oer the 2000 or more longshoremen long-shoremen who yesterday sought to tie up all vessels f Ij ing the British flag by a strike which thfy declared would continue until Archbishop Mannlx is allowed on British soil and Terenco MaiSweeney, lord rnaor of Cork, Is released from prison All but one of the big British liners scheduled to sail ; toila .. departed and the exception, the 'uii.ird liner Pannonla, will leave tomorrow, to-morrow, officials anounced. Most ui the firemen on the Pannonla walked out in sympathy with the strikcr-i. The crews of other vesst is r retained virtually intact I Ml Ki l l R. Hundreds of longshoremen who gait yesterday returned today. Union Of finals announced the deeply regretted regret-ted the unexpected walkout coming pint b--fe.iv n w witt;.- demands are to be piesented. Work went ahead, well at t..e Cun-ard Cun-ard Urn- ;md the American and French ship piers which longshoreman de-B de-B rled yesterday but at the White Star flm docks where the strike had its) Inception, no longshoremen reported Most of the hips wene late In get-1 ting away the loading of baggage In) some cases being done by the office fi res of the steamship line, with pas-sengera pas-sengera ocojujionaUj lending q hand The White Star liner c Itio dcpoi u d at 2 o'clock, two hours after the departure de-parture of two American steamships, I the St. Paul and Finland. The Goth-1 land. Belgian vessel which longshore-men longshore-men had quii loading Friday, also pulb-d off The ('unard liner Aqul-tanla Aqul-tanla with Prince Carol of Rumania aboard left at -4-45 o'clock and 20 mln ! ute later the White Star liner nlvm-j pic fdllowed. These two vessels arc expected to be near one another going to Southampton South-ampton and a possible trans-Atlantic pe il r i ,i K b.oked fur COLBY VISITED. WASHINGTON, Ausr 28 Three I members of the American Woman pit lo I sa Secretary Colby todaj and asked him i. prptest the British government against the imprisonment oi Mayor M'sjcSweexrej of fork. The eCrctary said ho would take the re-quest re-quest under ad Isom- nt Mrs Gertrude Corllsi spokesman the delegation, replied that unb-:. an Immediate answer Is gten the ad-1 ministration will lose the entire Irish-1 Amerii m ote." Mr Colby unsweieci thai he rapre-scnted rapre-scnted the American nation, riot a' group of citizens ami reUerated that h- would take the matter und r advisement ad-visement The woman made public a telegram win. h they suld had been sent to John W Unvis, Amcrlian ambassador to London now in .New York, Baying that unless MacSweenej was release,) and British troops withdrawn from In - land, .i boycott against British -hlp-plni; and trade throughout the country would be ,-arrled ,,n. BROTHERS KILLED LONDON, Aug. 2S. A dispatch to the Evening News from cork says thut (Qoptlnucd on PagQ Two ) Boy Dead and Six Wounded as Troops Fire (Continued from Pago One) John and Bartolomew BucKiey, broth-e broth-e were arrested near that city recently re-cently by the military, roped back to back, and placed In a military lorry. I During the Journey John Was killed I by a rev olver shot throught the heart, the bullet passing on and lodging In his brother's shoulder. The dispatch states tint the report of yie Incident handed to th parents read: "Your SOI! John, In trying to escape from military custody while on his way to Cork was shot 11.- riled. Bartholo-ii Bartholo-ii ew also was wounded." KIM. IN I I RCI DE6 GENEVA. Aug 28. (By the Asso-Ciated Asso-Ciated Press) It Is understood Klnjr tieorge was in direct communication with Premier Bloyd George at Lucerne i as to the lord mayor of Cork who Is I rcvorted dying in Brixton prison, London. Lon-don. Results of the Intervention of Ho: king are not known. The report that Sir H.imar Greenwood Green-wood chief secretary for Ireland, had brought an ultimatum fom the Irloh administration is declared to be untrue. un-true. ' oo |