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British Troops Subdue Irish Prison Rioters(Continued From Pago IB)eluded two women killed bywere about 50 prisoners doing British troops in Belfast's battle against the 50 riot Falls Road area, a strongholdtroopsof IRA guerrillas battling toLongkesh camp, near end partition of Ireland.Lisburnbuilttantsthesum- The army said the women,mili- Dorothy Maguire, 19, and her Irish sister, Mary Meehan, 30, wereRepublican Army scoopedin mass raids by British troops and Ulster con stabulary police.Republicans and many opposition politicians have accused the British government of providing inadquate facilities to house the internees.The army disclosed the prison camp riot a few hours after security forces charged that IRA guerrilla leaders,short of manpower from casualties and internment, are using girl guerrillas in front line action.Hie development came as surgeons fought to save the lives of two young women shot and critically wounded by troops and security police after a weekend of violence in which six persons died.One woman was brought into a hospital Monday morning after swapping fire with British troops on anarms search in West Belfast,A 'Mthe army said.The other was hit by plainclothes police who chargedshe was part of a team that planted a bomb in a crowdedcabaret late , Sunday night.Her male companion was shotdead*The weekend s dead Inin a car from which shots were fired at British units.Associates of the women denied this, and said the womenwerea klaxon foghorn to warn residents ofsoundingan impending search for armsand IRA suspects.Three columns of death notices in the Irish News, a Roman Catholic daily, commemorated the sisters asmartyrs of ’'isnusn oc cupation forces in Ireland.” Many were signed by Belfast units of the IRA. Miss Maguire was identified as a staff officer of Cumann na mBan, the IRA's women’sWomen operatedpreviously the IRA’shaves early warning system against arms searches, signalling troop approaches by banging trash can lids on sidewalks.They are known too to haveassisted in planting bombs,sometimes carrying them intostores in shopping bags.They have not previously been identified as carrying guns, although pictures ofyoung girls undergoing arms training have appeared inIrish newspapers.
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Sarasota Herald Tribune
Sarasota, Florida, US
Tue, Oct 26, 1971
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