Paragould soliphone., 1922-06-14
IRELAND TORN
 IN RELIGIOUS
 HATE AND WAR
Catholics and Protestants
 Flying at Each Others
 Throats-Blood Curdling Outrages Committed.

| Belfast, June 13-There are two amendments to the first command ment as it is recognized and obeyed here in this holy hell of religious in Tolerance.
 The Protestant version is, honor lthy father and thy mother and curse the pope.'
 The Catholic interpretation is, "honor thy father and thy mother and damn King William of Orange ' The fanatical elements of both sects have combined on the addition | of another commandment-the Elev- enth which says, love God and shoot straight"
 Many Bullets Go Astray. There is ample profession of al- lection for the Diety, but the marks partisan stranger will affirm. The daily terror of assassination and arson, continues. Charges and Icountercharges fly back and forth among the newspapers sympathizing with the warning factions. Not a might passes without several bomb ,outrages. old men and women are shot in the back ill the streets. Girls are assaulted. Children are beaten. Livestock is tortured. Homes and altars are destroyed Sacred objects are detiled. Dwell ings gre burned Stores are footed. All this is done in the name of God Belfast today is undeniably dis graceful blot on Christian civiliza- tion. Russian pogroms against the Jews. Turkish atrocities in Armenia, may find explanation in their semi Asiatic settings, but here where white humans have adored the same cross for centuries. utter madness Iseems to he the only circumstances of extentuation for the crimes equal ing the barbarism of the Middle Ages.
 Surrounding everything here is hatred, ignorance and bigotry. Chil- dren born into the world are taught to hate other children living in the next block. Schoolboys shout i'm precautions ''papist," Protestant. v These simple words carry popular definitions unknown to other Chris tion communities.
 There's one four-word phrase which means fight in America, but in Belfast ''papist," or Orange man" are words which have become unpardonable. for which men kill and get killed The local maps of Belfast show green blotches indicat- ing several islands in which are located the Catholic populations, sur- rounded by Protestants. Catholics leaving or entering these islands are always in danger Protestants penetrating Catholic precincts do so at their peril.
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 Snipers from the roof tops ot Catholic and Protestant sections shoot back and forth They seldom injure one another, because each is well hidden. Most of the firing is directed at the street crossing cor ners where crowds are liable to as semble. and the chances Of winging victims are greater.
 This daylight activity of the enipers usually results in riot call responded to either by the military or special constabulary, who arrive in armored cars. spray the doors and windows with machine gun fire, drive everybody out of sight and retire. The majority of the persons arrested are found lying wounded in the streets. Their de fense is usually reasonable "inno- cent byGtanders.
 The warfare at night is carried on by small groups of three or four, who invade enemy territory under the cover of darkness, hold up, rob and kill those whom they meet in the streets; engage in pistol duels with the police, throw bombs into bedroom windows, and set fire to property. It is not dark in Belfast until II o'clock When the Curfew