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Show igi yt v t tt w 2000 SOLDIERS FMENGLJi Fierce Rioting At Londonberry Between Nationalist and Unionist Mobs IRISH 'CONFETTI7 IS THROWN WITH VIGOR Wild Scenes Enacted for Few Hours When Police r-orce Is Withdrawn CORK, May 17. Two thousand thou-sand troops from England were landed at Bantry on Saturday Sat-urday and immediately distributed dis-tributed throughout West Cork. Troops to the number of 150 also arrived at Skibber-deen. Skibber-deen. They commandeered severaljDujld LONDONNERY, May 17. London-nerv, London-nerv, after two nights of rioting, was again tho scene of riotous demonstrations demonstra-tions today. Hundreds' of men remained re-mained away from their work, walking walk-ing about the streets, where many m- dividual encounters occurrcu aeiwwwu Sinn Feiners and Unionists. There 'was stone throwing by the crowds at one point by Sin Feiners, the police reported firsed several shots at two i Unionist soldiers. They missed their I marks. Countess Appears. ! DUBLIN. May 17. Countess Georgia iMarklevicz, Sinn Fein member of parliament par-liament for the St. Patrick's division I of Dublin, whose whereabouts has lon3 been a mystery, made a theatrical rc-i rc-i apparance clad in a commandant s urn-?oim urn-?oim yesterday at an open-air meeting in Croker park in memory of the mem-j mem-j bers of the Irish republican Vm I who were executed after or killed during dur-ing the rebellion of 1916-, 1916-, ,ini;i'rori address m Tne COUllieaa ucu.v.vu - which she appealed for suppoit foi Irish industires. Scene Is Turbulent. Rioting last night between Nationalists Nation-alists and Unionist mobs as even fiercer than Saturday's fighting. Bottles, Bot-tles, bricks and pistols were agam freelv employed by the combatants and many more shop windows wcie broken. Bottles Hurled. Groups of men and women in the Unionist quarter of Fontain street and similar groups in the Sinn Fein miar-ter miar-ter of Bridge street followed an exchange ex-change of party cries with stone and, bottle throwing. Then more than one hundred revolver shots followed. In addition to the killing of a former soldier sol-dier named Doherty. three others were wounded. When tho hostilities broke out tho police were withdrawn and for a few hours mob law was supreme. Hunger Strikers Quit. LONDON. May 17. Thirty-four Sinn Fein hunger strikers recently released from the Wormwood Scrubbs prison, who have Bince been undergoing treatment treat-ment at tho Marylebono infirmary in London, left the infirmary Sunday afternoon af-ternoon as a protest against "an alleged shortage of rations, and have not returned. re-turned. According to the Mall the ordinary or-dinary rations failed owing to the illness ill-ness of the steward and the admission of several new patients and the-Sinn Feiners refused to partake of the reduced re-duced ration. The town hall and courthouse at Maynoth, 15 miles northwest of Dublin, Dub-lin, were blown up early Saturday morning. Tho buildings were the property of Lord Frederick Fitzgerald. It had been rumored that military forces would, shortly be housed in the town hall. A n n |