New-York tribune., 1921-11-23
Bombs Spread Death and
Injury in Disorder That
Marks First Functioning
of Ulster Parliament
Sim Fein Charges
Anti i-CathOlic Plot
May Rally Army for Civil
War; Lloyd George to
Demand Craig Act at
Once to Restore Peace
From The Tr;bune's Exropenn .Bureo,

Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Nov. 22.-Twenty- -one per-
sons were killed and scores wounded in
frightful outburst of rioting in Bel
fast to-day coincident with the as
sumption by the North Ireland Parlia-
ment of control of listers local affairs
under the recently signed order-in-
council. Bombs are still being flung
tonight after snipers had held sway
during the greater part of the day.
The worst outbreak occurred when
the workers were returning from the
shipyards this evening. A bomb was
hurled under streetcar filled with
Workers on Corporation Street and
three persons were killed and sixteen
wounded. Other bombs were tossed in
the midst of a group of workers on
the Newtown Road, infiicting thirteen
casualties.
The Sim Fein charge the Orangemen
with organizing wholesale pogroms
against Catholic workers and there is
danger that the Irish republican army
may again be called out and the stu
var.
Lloyd George to Demand Action
The meeting of Premier Lloyd George
and Sir James Craig, Premier of VI
ster, was again postponed to-day, owing
to the illness of Sir James, but LLOYD
George will take the first opportunity
OF emphasizing to the Ulster leader the
urgency of q settlement before the sit
oqtc ,laf fol L
Craig may be influenced by the grow
ing reaction of English opinion against
Ulster as result of the impotence of
ene Unlonlst leaders to control the fac
tions IN Belfast and a comparison of
me ceaseless and savage disorders in
the Ulster capital against the back
ground Of peace and order in the re-
mainder of Ireland.
BELFAST, Nov % (By The Associ-
sted Press).-This afternoon firing be-
came fierce in the Ballymaccarett dis
trIct. Lorry loads of police and mill
iary were rushed to the scene to protect
the workers, whose movements thew
olanketed. They were successful in
their maneuCers until the tramcar wa q
bombarded.
lramway service was entirely sus-
pended in the district around the York
street thread mills, the biggest busi-
ness OF its kind in the city. The mill
closed its doors to-day an hour before
Iae usual time. The girl operatives
ieft the factory by hole made in the
val IN side street on the occasion
Of the last rioting in the district.
Shooting Near Labor Exchange
There was shooting during the day
near the Labor Exchange, where one
OF the clerks was killed outright and
another man was so badly wounded
that ne died later. The rest of the
staff of the exchange fed in panic.
Durlng the afternoon constable was
saot IN the eye in North Queen Street.
feature of the trouble tonight was
q. vendetta against the keepers of pub
Iic houses A party of men entered
Dugnans public house in York Street
missed him. In Duncairn Gardens
spirit dealer named Conolly was shot
IN the stomach and another public
mousse keeper in York Road was shot in
'ne neck. The wounds of both men
are serious
Two men entered house in Pottin-
ger street. in the east end of Belfast,
ana shot and killed householder of
tne name of Malone.
During the shooting of the early
aours bullet pierced a gas pipe in a
mouse mouse on Thompson Street, the escap-
ing gas causing the death of three per-
sons who were asleep.
DUBLIN, Nov. %. 1t is reported
'hat 1orty-seven political prisoners, the
mhaJoflty Of whom are supposed to have
ueeh transferred from Spike Island,
aear Cork, last Friday night, have es-
uaI;s uspea from the Kilkenny Jail by tun-