BELFAST ANARCHY.
SEVEN ISSUES' STONSNC.
PACIFICATORY APPEALS.
THE TROOPS WITHDRAWN.
LONDON, .August' 14.
- One of the Boyal Engineers SearchTigTi-t Companies and apparatus have been.hurried to Belfast.
When the troops returned to the barracks on Monday night tliey had been under intermittent ' onslaughts for seven hours, tlie KiHe Brisa.de and the Sussex Regiment having borne the brunt. - . Tlxe troops separated, the Nationalists from the Protestant quarters. The Protestants loudly cheered the troops. . .
Women rioters loosened stones for li.oo.rs, and participated in the stome-tJir owing. Everything is now quiet.
The Lord KCayor of Belfast received a large deputation of leading Soman Catitolics of the Fallsroad district, and decided not to send troops to the disturbed area unless rioting was renewed. The members of the deputation promised te use their lbest endeavours to prevent a recurrence of the disturbances. Kauy of the priests talked to the people, urging tiiem to remain
Mr. Joseph" Devlin, Nationalist member in the House of Commons for Belfast West, and Mr. Xiarkin, tzhe iianonT leader, addressed a large meeting, and induced the people to go to their homes. ■
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 194, 15 August 1907, Page 5
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