Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-22 | Page 11 | Bloody Riots on in Belfast

BLOODY RIOTS ON IN BELFAST Police Fire on Mill Workers; i Business District of City Is Being Patrolled BELFAST. July 22. Rioting was renewed In the Falls area of West Belfast during tbe mill dinner hour to-dav. to-dav. The postoffice was wrecked and tho police fired on the rioters. In the meleo a soldier and several civilians w ere wounded. The :ity district of Belfast this morning: was 'julet after a night of sanguinary fixhnnK between sum Fein and unionist mobs, but the situation was tense and the military with armed arm-ed cars wei patrolling the affected areas. Rain was falling and it was hopc'l this Wpuld prove a deterrent to further rioting. Casualties thus far recorded are two nun and one woman killed audi twenty persons treated at IiompHhIsJ for serious Kunshot wounds. Many' wounded did not report to hospitals Flftv-four arrests were made $400,000 DAMAGE DONE The primary cause of the trouble' is believed to be the recent murder of. Colonel Smyth in Cork, as many men employed ai Belfast come from Baln-j l'ridg-. Smyth s nativo town. This morning the workers returned to the shipyards as though nothing had happened although the trouble v,as started In the yards yesterrl after af-ter a number of Sinn Fein employes had been attacked The authorities believe they have the sltuution In hand. Unofficial estimate places the property prop-erty damage and looting done by the mob at loo. 000 pounds. i l5l.Kl's PlvACE OFFER. DL'BLdX, July 21, Inquiry concerning concern-ing the report that the Sinn Fein and the Brltb-h governmctn are prepared j the British government are prepared I of the Irish question, disclosed today that an eminent ecclesiastic with Important Im-portant Sinn Fein connections inform-! ed friends that he had received a com-j munlcMtlon, with credentials which, satisfied him that It had emanated I from the cabinet. This he had sub mitted to Annur umilin, toumier or the Sinn Fein organisation Many attempts, it is asserted, had been made previously to sound the Sinn Fein on the possibility of a compromise, and there appeurs to be no reason to suppose that this will be more fruitful than the others. The Sinn Fclnors declare that they will not negotiate.