Evening star., 1920-06-24
TROOP ACTIVITY
LIMITS TURMOIL
At LONDONDERRY
Only Occasional Shots Fired
From Midnight to This Aft
ernoon in Stricken City.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDONDERRY, June 24.-More
British troops arrived in this city and
their greater activity in efforts to pro-
tect life and property has had a quiet
ing effect Only occasional shots were
heard after midnight this morning. Two
snipers have been arrested by the SOL
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Besides actually attacking snip6rss
with arInored cars and machine guns,
the troopsshave done much srescue work
When it was reported last night that
the Sim Feiners were about 70 track
a cluster of houses. armored cars were
rushed to the scene, and the troops re-
moved terrified women and CHILDREN to
a section OF town where nationalists
predominated. The gas works have also
been protected by armed men.
Aside from an occasional shot by a
sniper there was no firing up to early
this afternoon.
Gas supply Exhausted.
The gas supply ceased at 5 o'clock
this morning and the inhabitants in
some sections were left in serious
plight. without fuel. light or bread.
Portions of the outlying districts
are being patrolled by Ulster volun-
teers while nationalist volunteers are
guarding their sections.
Many additional wounded reached
the hospitals during the night.
A barber named Mclaughlin was
killed this morning by the bullet of
a sniper who was firing at long
range. John Mckinney. who was
wounded yesterday, died today. The
body of a commercial traveller, which
was lying in the street where he was
killed Tuesday, was recovered during
the forenoon.
Wire barricades and trees have been
donderry by factionalists, apparently
in an effort to hamper the troops.
Some of the telegraph and telephone
lines leading into the town have been
cut.
by the military had arms and plenty of
ammunition. They were handed over to
the police Among those arrested was
{: priest. but he was released.
The destroyer which arrived in the
River Foyie yesterday was forced to
change it's berth early this morning be-
cause snipers were firing at the war
ship.
Ftercest Fighting Yet Deve- ped.
Terror held sway here yesterday
and last night, rifle and machine-gun
fire sweeping the streets in the
fiercest fighting to develop thus far in
the civil war. which began last Fri
dav between unionist and nationalist
forces.
Ii has been impossible to reach the
scene of the veritable pitched battles
lin Bishop, Cross and Bond streets
N is believed. however. that there
were scores of victims. Hospitals are
being taxed to their capacity in car
ing for those struck down by bullets
fired by the opposing factions
Contestants Not Numerous.
The men engaged in the actual fight
inc are extremists of the contending fac
tions and probably number only few
hundred They absolutely terroriZed the
CITY Yesterday, however. as they hred
yolleys down the streets from barrl-
cades they had erected, or, posted on
roofs or in windows, shot at almost
every one who dared to appear.
Rishop street, long thoroughfare
running southwestwardly from the
town hall has been the principal bat
tIeground during the past twenty-four
hours. Sim Feiners have concentrated
near St. Columbkill's College. about
three-ouarters of mile out this street.
while the unionists have taken up posi-
lions near the center of the town and
erected sandbag breastworks in Barrack
street Last night the fighting became
severe for a time, and a company of SOL
Ndiers was sent out from the barracks
Rursts of machine-gun fire were heard
at intervals during this encounter.
R,ttIing In Narrow Streets.
Between Bishop street and the River
Foyle. to the east. there are a num-
her of narrow. crooked streets. in which
there have been fierce encounters. Sol
diers have not been able to intervene
effectively in this part of the town and
anpear to be awaiting reinforcements
before attempting a large scale move
ment to end the fighting between the
principal forces Of the warning parties
Londonderry is facing starvation if
the fighting continues. 1t is impos-
sible to deliver supplies to houses
and no one. dares to venture out of
doors in the business section of
town. Fearing further disorders,
hundreds of people have left the city
| for the south, some being reported to
have arrived at Strabane.
Urgent Appeal to London.
LONDON. June 24.-Sir Hamar
Greenwood, chief secretary for Ire
land, today received another urgent
telegram from the Londonderry mag
istrates, expressing their alarm that
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