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Show BRITISH REGULARS GUARDING RUINS OF CORK I TROOPS ORDERED T8 1 1 SHOOT ALL LOOTERS; I FIRE LOSS MILLIONS I CORK, Ijcc. 13. (By tho Associated Press.) More than thrcj IbsssI hundred buildings are said to have been destroyed in the tires which rsssssl irdaj laid waste .1 greal pari of iins city. Must of il" fires , I have been extinguished, but there are occasional sporadic onihuriiSii til V military patrol v.;ts nmbuslwd ;it Cloyne, seven miles - ;i -1 bf liH QueenstowiL yesterday Tin.- attackers threw bombs from twu houses, but were defeated Two of the attackers were killed, several Wounded and two itpt nr-' One soldier ;is wounded. The houses J from which the bombs wore thrown were burned. LONDON. Dec 13 British regn- H lars stood guard today over twisted H i el blackened mlna laft'after the fires 1 whicli SatUrdaj night and yesterday swept virtually unchecked through the H city r cork. Ireland Charges sre H tnade that police auxiliaries, madden- - H ed b the killing and wounding of H ambushed by Sinn Kclnct- H 'on Saturday, loosed ths fire demon on it he city. Estimates of the loss run us H high as $15. 000. 000. H Hours of terror were s.ient by the 1 ot Cork during Saturday night, I I H the wlldes' disorder prevailing H throughout the city, it i said several H lives were lost and dispatches deOtaj I two brothers named DelanS) H called from thslr homes and .shot, on H ihcm fatally. I - DISTRIt I S 8W1 PI Two dlatrlcta of Cork wen' swept H 'the flames. ti the buslneas BdCtlon along St. Patrick's street, from Cook H ;to Max lor. hardly a shop was left mi- H v the shopping . ' H of Cork. South of St. Patrick's H the fire apeard along Wfinthroi H Street and other narrow thorough- fates as Car old George street. Tni H an area of throe idocka In this part of the town was reduced to dubrK HH 1 no I d . I jthat the loss of the fire was centered. CI i ii m.i. 131 in is The magnificent city hall of Cork H ..ii southern end of lh H I'arneM bridge that spans the river H Iee was also laid In ruins. In add I- H tlon. the Carnegie library to the' west. H was Durneu, and tin- corn exenange. H to the south, was partly destroyed. H Reports say Albert Quay, lying along H the southern bank of tin- river, Js u mass of desolation. H W II. I. SHOOT t.ooi l RS if Dispatches reaching London t say that Cork xvas quiet and that ot - H ders had been given the regular sol- diers to ho,i i.kii. is on sight. Dnm- aged premises had been plundered in H some Instances, it Is said. AH dispatches received here Indlcaie IH the disorders and fires had a direct H ids the lorry carrying police auxiliaries Sbme newspapers, however, are frank- I skeptical of these reports and SUg- gH gest the flrer might have been caus I by explosion of stored explosives. H Others indbate their belief the fires H were n reply to the establishment of H martial law In southwestern Ireland and it is remarked that dispatch. H were set b) men bent upon reprisal. Bl of Cork, Is said to have announced in K" tlon to excommunicate anyone partlcl- H patlng In further ambuscades of crown forces In thlt, diocese. B Utlt Kg vn , lv) ,, BALLINDLjSE, County Ixngfori. H Ireland. Dee. 13 The ,,.,liio harrael.. here was attacked this morning, A wall was blown after a five hour ba' LBSSSSW tie, but the police held the building constable was killed and thsee severely wounded. I wM MOKK li M Ms REPORTED BELFAST, Ireland. Dec 13. (Bv I the Associated Press) All was quiet I H In Cork last night but the fires wer smouldering H After dark the streets were almost deserted. The military took charge. H r hour patrols of tin Roj H Si Irish Constabulary took up the duty after which neither the military nor H the auxiliary police appeared on the 1 Armed Sinn l-'elnem last night at- H tacked the police barracks ut Cam- H tough, south of Armagh. H Military forces were hurrlod up from Newry and a fight ensued in "H which it Is known one civilian was IH killed. Several other deaths are re- ported to occurred. H oo skssssm |