Evening star., 1920-06-25
IRISH ARE SHIPPING,
FEARING MASSED
STREET FIGHTING
Military Forces Control
Londonderry-Shops0 Open.
Total of II Killed.

| LONDONDERRY, June 25 (by the
Associated Press). = Londonderry.
since Friday last the scene of violent
street warfare between unionist, ma
| tionalist and Sim Fein factions, to-
day was approaching a normal condi
ton. The banks and many shops
! were open and people ventured into
the streets. The food supply was
short, however, and the town still
without gas.
Fighting between the warning fac
tions since midnight was confined to
sniping, the rival elements evidently
| fearing to attempt massed activities
in. view of the increased military
forces.
| The soldiers. in trying to ferret out
snipers. took over st. Columba's Col
| lege. The trees in the campus had
sheltered number of snipers.
! At a meeting of the magistrates
! Gen. Campbell gave the assurance
| that the government would provide
sufficient troops for the protection OF
| law-abiding citizens in Londonderry.
! He issued proclamation putting the
curfew into force from II o'clock
Saturday evening until o'clock Sun
; day morning.
Seventeen Persons Killed.
| y tobdl VI seventeen ptISoHS nav
been killed and twenty-nine wounded
during the fighting in the city, ac-
cording to an official statement issued
| by the police this evening. The state
! ment says that five persons were
killed and ten wounded last Saturday
two were killed and four wounded
Monday, three killed and one wounded
| Tuesday, three killed and fourteen
| wounded Wednesday and four killed
Thursday.
| A -year-old boy named George
| Caldwell was shot while he was look
| ing from a window. Thursday the
| body of Patrick Plunkett CONNER
cial traveller and well known in Bel
| fast as cricket player. was found IN
| Bishop street and removed to a hre
station. He was killed Immediately
| after he had sent a telegram to his
wife. informing her of his safety. A
| barber named Mclaughlin, who was
| killed by a sniper, was wounded two
months ago. A woman named Moore
was shot while looking from win
\ dow
| The looting Wednesday night was
| more extensive than ever Numerous
cases were reported of armed and
masked men calling at the homes OF
unionists and nationalists and Civ
! ing them a couple of hours, in which
| to clear out
| "WOrse Than France"
An EnglSn SOlQleT WHO went
! through the war, describing his eX-
perience in Londonderry, said he had
| seen nothing in France to compare
with the situation in Londonderry.
Bullets, he said, were flying from all
sides wherever he went and it was
marvellous that so few lives were
lost.
An attack by a mob of 800 on the
gas works Wednesday night was
frustrated by the military. who took
possession of the plant
LOOters Dispersed.
LONDON, June. 25.-Snipers were
! busy in Londonderry during the past
dispatch from that city. Troops on
guard there fired on disorderly ele-
ments several times. and also dis
persed looters.
| At about midnight the firing be-
came so intense that the searchlight
| on the destroyer anchored in the har
Dor was turned on the city in an
| endeavor to locate the men engaged
| in the fighting.
A former soldier, named Austin,
was killed while crossing a street.
A dispatch to the Evening News
from Londonderry says:
In four days in this city. in which
every house was an armory with
| magazine, only two youths have been
arrested for carrying firearms. The
| ficiently powerful to protect those
! they disarm from attacks by their
! enemies. Until reinforcements arrive
| in bigger numbers disarming the peo-
! pie probably would lead to greater
| bloodshed."
| No Aid From Government.
| DUBLIN. June 25.-Arthur Griffith
| vice president of the Sim Fefn or
| ganiZation. having charged that the
! Londonderry riots We're planned in
compulsion with government servants
were given facilities to send arms to
Londonderry and provided with
money for this purpose. Dublin Castle
| issued a detailed contradiction of all
of Mr.. Griffith's charges.
The contradiction declared that the
Irish government had no reason to
believe that any servant of the gov
eminent had assisted either section to
the controversy to obtain arms, and
+; that if such were the case the gov
ernment would deal with the Of
tenders with the utmost severity.
| SCARSBOROUGH. England. June
25-At the labor party conference
| here a resolution was adopted de-
claring that the Irish people have
the right to decide for themselves
what their form of government shall
be.
| An amendment to the resolution pro-
viding for the giving of Ireland home
rule within the empire was defeated
BELFAST, June 25.-SiX motor lor-
ries filled with fully armed troops
have left Belfast for Londonderry
Two lorries filed with equipment for
the troops and an armored car also
were dispatched to Londonderry.
A report has been received here from
np,o oh that Constable Michael EOrar