The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-26
BATTLE IMMINENT
ON ULSTER LINE
Zone Half-Mile Wide, Two
Miles Long, Bristles
With Armament
BUSINESS IS TIED UP
Residents Are Afraid to Ven
ture Out and When They
Do They Move Hurriedly

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BELFAST, Ireland. May 25.--rlc-
turo zone. about half a mile wide
"A mo mans Understanding for
approximately 22O miles. with
armed groups facing one another
az every vantage point, and one gets
some notion Of the border separat-
ing Ulster province from the Irish
Free state.
sandbng ontrenchments. snipers.
machine guns. barbed wire ontangle-
mcnts-ail are present.
CiVl war looms darkly on the
horizon and both sides are prepared
for It.
Unwisc Ia Move Slowly.
The car containing the Interim
tional News Service correspondent
dashed from tho barracks AZ Caledon
at 80 miles an nour. 1t IL unwisc to
daily in these parts. for there are
snipors everywhere and many OF
them are not too particular whether
1t IL an orangeman or Sim feinor
that gets the bullet.
a policeman armed with rifle
sat on the first seat OF tho motor
car, wariy eyeing the hedges that
lined the roadway Every man IN
the car carried a revolver. That IS
the most popular article Of hardware
On the Ulster frontier these days.
a few minutes before tho automo.
bile carrying the correspondent
started out an armored car carrying
10 mon with machine guns and rlCes
had sped over the same road on is
regular rounds. The armured car &
the safest means OF conveyance and
when traveller wants TO he ahso-
lutely safe that is the way he Jour
neys.
Fairly Quiet There.
The motor car reached tho tlrl
hamlet where 20 policemen were
living in n hut The walls were llnec
with tin. pocx- marked with bulle
holes. The sergeant In cnarge SAID
that things happened to be fairly
quiet" but that number Of per
sons had fled from their homes M
the result of religions feeling ant
the recent arrest OF large numberi
of sinn fclners.
Then the motor car went on TO III,
noXt outpost. II was well placed
fairly sheltered by trees and barbeC
wire, the barbados extending fo
several hundred yards II Is dlffl
cult place against which to make
surprise attack and so long as on
kept behind shelter he was fairl!
safe. Double rows OF sandbags max
the post bullet-proof on three side
and there was a bomb-proof cente
for protection against air raids.
Republicans Open Up.
After the correspondent and hi
companions had been at the ou,
post for some hours. tho republican
took II into their heads that thins
were Altogether too reposeful,
they opened up with a machine gu
Occasionally n rifle shot struck III
hut.
After n three minute spurt ,
fighting. tho republicans quit. b,
later renewed ~.
A farmer approached tho outpos
crawling on his hands and knees.
You are taxing your life In yot
hands," warned tho commandant.
II know" replied the farmer. "b,
what about my cattle and horses
they must he looked after"
The farmer had been ordered ol
OF his home by republicans but WI
allowed to attend TO his stock.
Everything at siandstilI.
This gives n fair picture OF cond
tions. Day after day such raid
forages and fusillades continue.
along the rich Clogher valley. one
the finest pieces OF agriculture lai
In the world. everything is held I
because of guerilla warfare. som
times IL Ia merely casual tirin
sometimes the republicans, heav'
armed and In large groups, mako
flying raid over tho frontier of o
OF the border counties. The poll
(who are really soldiers) do not {
tack the republicans unless
tackled first.
Naturally, the nerves OF residei
OF the frontier are strung TO hi
pitch. They only ask TO he let aloI
but they never know when a str
bullet will pass through a windt
killing some one. Kldnapings
common, also. Large numbers
frontier residents, left pennlless.
parted to America.
Armless persons can write W
apparatus strapped TO the body q