Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-25
-FOUR PERSONS DIE
IN IRISH DISORDERS
Shipyard Workers Are Attacked
While Riding Home on
Tramcars
27 OTHERS ARE WOUNDED

Belfast, May 25.--The total casual
ties In the series of disorders which
swept Belfast during the night were
placed at four dead and twenty seven
wounded today. The wounded included
only those cases treated in hospitals.
1t is unoffcially declared that the
curfcw law will probably be extended
TO include the country districts.
The Carnegie Library in the heart OF
the Falls Road district was set ahre
last evening 4 mob attacked tn" hre
brigade. and also the police, who tried
to protect the tircmcn.
Early yesterday eight armed men
boarded new tramCar in Il lonely part
Of Falls road. and while two covered the
crew with their weapons the others sat.
uratcd both decks of the car with coal
oil. Then with piles of paper they set
the car abla2e and sent it speeding
toward the city.
A workman pluckily boarded the run
away and pulled the trolley, thus stop
ping 1t. Residents of the district ex-
tingushed the flames.
a grave digger at Telford. while pro-
cecdiug to his home from the cemetery,
wa attacked by a gang and shot dead.
While police were returning from
Rallymcna from operations in the dis.
more. \ fierce fight ensu"d and two "t
the attacking party were shot and
killed.
4 young married woman standiug
in the door Of her home in the east end
of the city was struck by bullet ana
dangerously wounded.
Among the features Of Minister OF
Finance Pollock's financial statement
to the Ulster Parliament today was that
the Government s balance sheet showed
n surplus Of f64 900. He said no new
taxes would be imposed and that sat.
istactory assurances had been received
from the British Cabinet regarding tn"
equipment and upkoep Of thc Ulster
special contabulary.
Dublin. May - by A. PD...
Eamon lie Valera received number Of
n"wspapermcn today ana appcai"I ,n
them for full publicity of the Ulster
atrocities on the ground that exposur"
of the facts TO the world was the way
TO peace.
There was n vicious circle of out
RACES and rclh hisnls. the Republican
leader said. The unioniSts were in
a majority in the northeast, and he
favored their having full local auton"-
my. He opposed cocrcins them, but
was equally opposed TO having the
northern minority coerced. and said he
would do all he could to prevent It,
The Catholic Bishop of Derry. while
motoring from his residepcc to Movillc,
was held up by lister special constab,cs
Yesterday. lie was ordered to leave the
car and was searched on the roadside.
according 10 n Londonderry dispatch.
Tho incident. it is asserted. has aroused
great Indignation.
The Labor Party will nominate sew
entc"n candidates for the coming Irish
I elections. The candidates include James
! Larkin. the former head Of tho Trans.
port Workers Union, who recently was
released from prison in III" nit"d
! states on writ OF rcasnnabic DOUBT.
I l.nrkIn was found guilty IN lo-o OF
| criminal anarchy ana S"ntenced 10
! term OF ilr' 7" ter years IN Ne" lorN
s'a'" ir'Soh'
:,
iHnuoh. May - = ny a. lee
caring 'hat IN" AngIo-'r'sh treaty
must b" saved t"daF newspapers eN'