Evening star., 1922-03-11
WOMAN SH0TiDEAD
|NBELFASTS STREET
Plan of 0rangemen for
Wholesale Slaughter
r. 49,: -: Denied, " .s=7.,>;z ,s:-7.',' =
~ the Associated pregs

B" the Associated Press. - -.
BELFAST. March 11.-Casualties in.
Belfast today as result Of con-
tinuance o: the disorders Included
one person killed. a woman. anc + wo
others seriously injured. -.
Katherine Neeson. standing outside
her home In Little George street. was
shot and killed by three men. who
escaped by boarding q tram car.
Bystanders declared the shooting was
deliberate. .-.
While delivering bread this morn,
Ing Edward McHenry was held up by
armed men and seriously wounded.
Earlier in the day a young girl was
severely injured by a bullet.
Lieut. Bruce OF the Seaforth High
landers was murdered in Albert
street. in the Falls Road district. last
evening by party Of men supposed
to be Sim Feiners. The lieutenant
was shot with revolvers. The great
est military activity followed the
killing. Lieut.. Bruce was wearing
civilian clothes and the motive for
the murder is not known.
Constable Cullen, who was shot in
an attack in the Falls Road earlier in
the evening, died later from his
wounds.
An official statement issued last
twenty-five Catholics and seventeen
Protestants have been killed in Bel
fast. The total number OF fatalities
since July. 1920. is given as l25 Cath
olics and 20 Protestants.
Constables oConnor and Cullen
were attacked by an armed band in
the Falls road tonight. OConnor was
shot dead and Cullen was mortslly
wounded.
Denies Outrage Plan.
Sir Dawson Bates. home secretary
or the North Ireland cabinet, yester-
day emphatically denied the report
from Dublin that Orangemen were
planning a wholesale onslaught ON
Catholics in Belfast. The provisional
government was reported as claiming
to possess knowledge of such inten-
tions.
Sir Dawson characterized the re-
port as part of general conspiracy
Interior motive of making law and
order impossible and compelling Ul-
ster to abandon its right to a sepa-
| rate government from the rest of
Ireland ....
While two policemen were patrol
ling York street yesterday afternoon
six armed men surrounded them, took
| away their rifles ana revolvers and
ran off.
William Kerr was found in a va
SdHl lol near 1OTk TOdQ SuIIeTlHB
from bullet wound.
Troops Leave Lfmerick.
A settlement OF the trouble between
the rival forces of the Irish repub-
lican army in Limerick has been
, reached. Under the agreement both
parties will evacuate the city.
Small maintenance units Of official
forces. II is provided. will occupy the
! military barracks now in possession
Of the Free State troops. tBy Official
forces presumably the British troops
which remained in Limerick are
meant)
! At IL o'clock this morning large
bodies OF troops were leaving the city.
LIMERICK, March 11.-Additional
| units for both the Free State troops
and the republican insurgents arrived
yesterday. and others were expected
! from CorE today.
I; A leaflet headed ITO the men who
have come to Limerick to support the
Eproclsioh6l government" says:
"Rememher. -your oath and the COM
| rades who fell by your side. Refuse
to be the tools of England. Return to
your true allegiance, the army of the
Irish republic, not the army of the
provisional government. Follow the;
example of ypur. comrades who had
the moral courage to stand by their
principles andc.are refusing to CO.
operate with the British forces left in
| the barracks"