New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-24
Only Sporadic Outbreaks
Reported i'm Isolated
Sections of City; Three
More Die of Wounds
10 Sim Feiners
Taken to England
Many Rioters Placed in
Jail ON Charges of Loot
ing Stores and Shops
By Frank Getty


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Copyright, 1920. New York Tribune Inc)
LONDON, July ga steady down
pour of rain in Belfast to-day
damped the ardor of the Sim Fem and
Ulster rioters who for two days and
nights had terrorized the city Only
four casualties had been reported at q
late hour tonight and a semblance OF
quiet had settled over the city, with
only now and then a sporadic outbreak
in isolated parts
Three persons who were wounded in
yesterdays pitched battles in Falls
Road died in hospitals to-day and man.
others of the hundreds of njured were
still in dangerous condition. The in
gress of new forces of the military
however, has had its influence on the
rioters and the authorities are now
hopeful that the worst Of the troubles
is over.
At dawn to-day the lull in the fight
ing came: The Catholic quarter Of
Belfast that had been the scene OF
such terrific fighting last night, in
which eleven were killed and 500
wounded, and 100000 worth of
property damaged, had become quiet
once more.
The night sky had been red with the
burning of Nationalist property by
Unionist mobs. which included hun
dreds of women, many Of whom were
wounded. The military had been
forced again and again through the
night to turn their machine guns on
both Ulster and Sim Fem MODS to
drive them back
Shops Are Looted
The hospitals resembled clearing
stations. All night long the men and
women looted public houses and
shops, setting fire to everything they
couldn't consume or carry away The
rival crowds fought with sticks and
stones in Sanford Street for an hour
and naif while the exhausted sol
diers who had just shot down ten per
sons in an earlier riot looked on.
wrecked the Catholic church had been
turned out by the reinforced military,
the Sim Feiners opened fire on both
the military and Unionists.
The Sim Feiners banded together
for protection, clashed with the mill
tary in Kashmir Road and again in
Springfield Road. Reinforcements were
hurried to the various scenes of trouble
and sniping became so inccssant that
the military was ordered to open fire
with machine guns to clear the streets.
Bullets raked the windows that were
suspected of harboring snipers. Many
Unionists as we'll as Nationalists fell
before the machine guns.
Troops Fire Into Crowds
The soldiers several times fired
volleys on both factions, and there
were inevitable clashes between the
two whenever they met.
In the Ballymacrett district the
crowds got beyond control and fights
! between the Orangemen and the Ma
tionalists were interspersed with at
tacks by both on the military, who
replied with volleys of rife fire.
BY midnight all the city's available
fire fighting apparatus was hard at
work to prevent general conflagration,
while the hospitals were overcrowded,
with more wounded coming in at every
minute.
Many Nationalsts disguised as wom-
en- were found trying to escape from
the danger district.
To-day armored cars and cavalry are
patroling the streets, while LANCE
bodies of troops with machine gun
nests are on guard behind barbed wire
entanglements. The doors to the
Roman Catholic Cathedral were barred
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