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Show - i FIERCE FIRING ENOSHSTROOPS TIEJ1TRGL ! Ulster and Nationalist Forces, Guarding Portions of Outlying Out-lying Districts iDEAD AND WOUNDED ARE j i RECOVERED IN STREETS ! j Londonderry Faces Starvation; ; : Night of Terror Marked ' With Continued Volleys l.UNDuNDKRRV. Jum1 2 1 More I British troops have arrived in litis city a.'id their activity has had a quieting; of feet. Two snipers have been ar-i ar-i rested,. I i Besides actually attaching snipers with armored carsnd machine guns, the troops have done m-jch rescue work. When it w;is reported la-"t night that tho Sinn Koine rs were aooul to 'attack a cluster of houses, the troop reniovpd terrified women and children to a -section where nationalists predominate. pre-dominate. The' gas works also have been protected arnie.jWiien. . f-ldcfriiTiosionXrsliot "by a ! sniper, thero was no firing up to .early this Afternoon. ( j The gas supply ceased at five a clock this morning. Portions of the outlying districts are being palrnllfMl by Ulster volunteers while nationalist volunteers are guarding guard-ing their .sections.' , Kind Dead aud Wounded Manv additional wounded reached the hospitals during the night. A barbfr was klllod this morning 'by a sniper's bullet. John McKinney. !who was wounded yesterday, died to-idav. to-idav. The bodv of a commercial traveler, trav-eler, which was lying in the street (where, he was killed Tuesday, was re-1 re-1 covered during the forenoon. Wire barricaues anu ircis mui-thrown mui-thrown across the main road to Uoi- ; donderrv apparently In an effort to hampor the troops Some telegraph and telephone lines leading into lh? town have been cu'. A number of Sinn Keiners rounded up by the militury had anns and plenty of ammunition. They were handed over to the police. Among those arrested was a priest, but he was released. The destroyer, which arrived yester-dav. yester-dav. was- forced to change its berth today because snipers were firing upon it. Xirht of Terror Terror held sway here yesterday and last night, rifle and machine gun fire sweeping the streets in the fiercest firing to develop this far in thc civil war which began last Friday between unionist and nationalist forces. Hospitals Hos-pitals are being taxed to their capacty ln caring for those struck down by bullets fired by the opposing factions. The men engaged in the actual fighting are the extremists of the contending factions and probably number only a few hundred. Thev absolutelv terrorized the city yestt-r-dav, howeer, as they fired volleys down the streets from barricades, or posted on roofs or In windows, shot at almost everyone who dared to appear. ap-pear. lircnstworks ln Street Bishop street, a long thoroughfare, has been the principle battle ground during the past 24 hours. Sinn Pernors Pern-ors havo concentrated near St. Columbia's Col-umbia's college, about three-quarters of a mllo out thiu street while thc unionists havo taken up positions near tho center of town and hae orected sand bag breastworks in Barrack street. "bast nght fighting became severe for a time, and a company of soldiers was sent out from the., barracks. bar-racks. Bursts of machine gun fire were heard at Intervals during this encounter. en-counter. Between Bishop streot and the River Fovlo, to tho east, there are a number of narrow, crooked strocts in which thero have boon fierce encounters. Londonderry is facing starvation If thc fighting continues. It Is impossible impos-sible to deliver supplies to houses and no one dares to venture out of do&rs in the business section of town. Protest Official Duiny ' L.OXDON", June 21. Sir I-Iamarj Greenwood, chief secretary for Ire-, land, today received another urgent telegram from the Londonderry mag-1 istratcs, expressing their alarm thatj no action was being taken in response to thc appeal made early in the'fight-; hig there between unionists and nn-1 tlonalists. They consider tho situation desperate desper-ate and fear it will become worse. Troops at Belfast LONDON, .lunc 24. A dispatch to the London Times from Belfast, timed 11: SO o'clock AVednesday evening, savs troops are pouring into Belfast and that some of I hem already havo started for Londonderry. Dublin City Orflces Closed LONDON, Juno 24, Thc Dublin municipal offices, public libraries and technical schools havo been closed as w t Continued , on T'age 3) t . I Fierce Firing Ends as Troops Take Control (Continued from page 1.) a result of a strike of the municipal employes for an increase In wages, according to a dispatch to the London Times from Dublin. The dispatch says the ,.ewly elected I county councils and boards of guard-llans guard-llans In Ireland which are overwhelmingly overwhelm-ingly Sinn Vein, have taken a hostile attitude toward the local government board. At the first meeting of the Sligo county council yesterday, prayers were recited for the success of the Irish republic. I Chairman Clancy, Sinn Fein member mem-ber of the house of commons, said tho work -of the council would aim at clearing Great Britain out of Ireland. One member of the council suggested that the children of policemen should not be allowed to compete for the council's scholarship. Another member mem-ber remarked while all, the council condemned crime thev did not object to guerilla warfare against the enemy. Cardinal Warned DUBLIN. Juno 2 1. Cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagn, and primate of Ireland, declared while speaking at Maynoolh college he had received warning "his time had come." No Indication of where the warning had come from was given by the aged cardinal. |