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Show 'BRITISH REFUSE TO COIPROH WITHIN FEIN Belfast is Quieting Down But Trouble Is Spreading to Nearby Cities POLICE SERGEANT KILLED AT DOORS OF CHURCH Situation Is More Alarming Than in Past Forty Years, Party Leader Says LONDON, Juno 26. The British government has no Intention of withdrawing with-drawing the bill for home rule for lie-land. lie-land. Premier Lloyd George stated In the house of commons today. It would press the measure forward with all possible speed when the house reassembled reas-sembled after the holiday recess, he added Reports that the government was opening negotiations with representatives representa-tives of the Sinn Fein for the purpose of reaching n-compromise as to the future rule of Ireland were set at rest In the house by the premier. He was asked by Lord Robert Cecil as to whether the government was opening negotiations or pourparlers with any section of Ireland and answered In the negative. LOOK FOR MORE TROUBLE. BELFAST, Ireland. July 25 Ther w n B no firing here last night or thli" morning and tho worst disturbance was some window smashing. The death list from the recent fighting be-: be-: nreen the Unionists and Sinn Fein factions fac-tions reached seventeen today when two women and a man died hilo quiet prevailed today, few could be found who would proclaim tho disturbance to be completely over, for passions have been aroused which are not easily quieted Many reasons are given for last week's outbreak In Belfast, which last night spread to Bangor and Lisburn, where great damage was done. The lootlno- of two residences and a spirits shop tn Ballymacarret, a suburb ! of Belfast. Saturday night, was done 1 by a crowd of youths A baton charge served to drive the looters home. The soldiers refrained from using their firearms There was a fight between the twe factions in the Falls road district, the only sufferers beine: police, two being wounded. SPREADS TO SMALL TOWNS. Services were held In St Matthews I chapel, one of the stu m centers, this I morning under unusual circumstances. Th" church was surrounded by barbed wire entanglements, soldiers forming .1 guard for the worshippers At Bangor, where many workers of Belfast reHlde saloons and pawn bok-ers bok-ers were the ' hief sufferers The police po-lice and military restored order without with-out the use of flremms. At Ballynahinch there was also an outbreak Saturday night Windows were smashed and attempts were made to burn the houses Thep outbreaks are considered serious, as they show-that show-that the trouble radiating out of Belfast Bel-fast may become general. Tho military at Derry were called upon to separate the rival factions Saturday night which came Into conflict con-flict at Bishop's Gate. soLDU Ks .irr RFVFNGU. DUBLIN, July 25. At Newport. I Tlpperary, last night, a gang of men Kh ared the hair from a girl because ! she w as keeping company with a po-' po-' llceman, exasperated soldiers and police po-lice burned houses of all of the principal prin-cipal Sinn I-einers, causing them to fly I for their lives. I Two coast guard stations In the I Beahaven district were raided today In the one at Bally garvene, . hlef Of-ficer Of-ficer Snewin and Petty officer Brown I were killed. HULLED AT CHURCH DOOR. CORK, Ireland. July 25. (By the .Associated Press. I Police Sergeant Mulhern, chief of Ihe Imclllgenco department de-partment of West Cork, was shot dead today at the door of a church at Ban-don Ban-don Ho hod left the pollre barracks In civilian attire and arrived at the church Just as mass commenced He Pitii6ed at the entrance, dipped his fingers in the font and was killed while actually making tho sign of the C ross. Uulhern s assailants were two masked mask-ed men. REPUDIATES CHVRX HMAN. MELBOURNE, Australia. July 25. I'retiiiei Moiris Hughes at Rendige today to-day vigorously denounced the utterances utter-ances In America of Archbishop Man-nix Man-nix of Melbourne. ' I w ant to tell the American people, peo-ple, " said the premier, "that Australia Aus-tralia repudiates him. The Australian people looi-, 1,, America for a contln-l uance Of cordial relations We Intend! to remain part of the British empire and want to trade with America, H hose best, interest coincide with oursj In the Pacific. I Intend to appoint a' high commission in America who will be able to speak authoritatively when j (Continued on Page Two.) British Compromise (Continued from Page 1.) i man like Mann is Is responsible foi .utterances repugnant to Australians SERIOUS POINT IS REACHED. LONDON, July 25 Sir Horace ; I'lunkctt. founder of the Irlsb Dominion Domin-ion league, and leuder of the moderate moder-ate Irish nationalist opinion, told a New Castle audience today that the situation in Ireland Is more alarmlns 1 1 1 1 within his knowledge of forty years. A Similar Vle Is reflected by the newspapers of England and Ireland 1 1 found eiren;ion In the speeches Thursday In the house of commons, oven Sir Edward Carson declaring he had never known anything llko the Stats of anarchy prevailing, and thai "in t h i ee-fpiarters of Ireland the British Brit-ish goi ernnn-nt has be n entirely beater beat-er " Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief , decretory for Irelnnd. warned the country to brace itself against a blt-ter blt-ter period In Irloh hl?tor. The rioting In Belfast subsided to-jday to-jday but there are plenty of signs that the lull Is only temporary. Both from Premier Lloyd George s statement to tho labor delegation Thursday and from Sir Hamar'aj speech, it is considered apparent that I the government regards that a part Ing of the ways Is reached One road leads toward negotiation with the Sinn: Fein on the basis of a dominion form I of government while the other appar-l sr.tlj leads toward tho bitter period Which Sir Harnnr foresees With morel soldiers and stricter laws for roprei-, nlon foremost among thjem trial of. criminals by summary courts and the! giving up of attempts to induce Jurymen Jury-men to answer to a summons. |
