18 FEBRUARY 1922, Page 2

We have written fully elsewhere about the condition of Ireland,

and we shall do little more now than briefly record the terrible results of the renewed outburst of murder and violence. When we go to Press on Thursday the casualties due to the shooting of the past few days have amounted to 35 persons killed and 70 wounded.. Never has life been so insecure in Belfast. On Wednesday the fighting in-Belfast spread from the usual quarters to many parts of the city. The troops were called out and bayonet charges were necessary to clear the streets. A typical assassination was that of Mr. Duffin, who was shot in his office in Belfast on Wednesday. The Sinn Fein gunmen who com- mitted the murder escaped.