The Archive · 1921

Provoked by Sinn Feiners

London, June 14.

Rioting was renewed in the crowded streets of Belfast to-day and troops were compelled to disperse the rival mobs by firing volleys. The rioting was provoked by an attack by Sinn Fein gunmen, who were posted on the roofs of houses, on workers who were crowding for seats in tramcars em route to the dockyards. A conflict ensued and traffic was suspended. The police, on being reinforced, dispersed the snipers by fung vol-

London, June 15.

Fresh rioting broke out on_the horder of the Catholic and Protestant quarters of Belfast. last evening. A new feature of the fighting was that the gunmen used sandbag barricades in addition to sniping from the roofs of houses. Armoured cars restored order after two civilians had been killed.—Reuter.

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