BELFAST RIOT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1548, 18 September 1912, Page 7

BELFAST RIOT.

— ♦- FIGHTING AT THE SHIPYARDS. By Tdscrn-pli— Press Association—Copyright London, September IC. As a mull: of tho viol ut Ihe football match, iiiiiny of the employees at Hurland and Wolff's ship-building yards arc afraid lo resume work. Sectarian lighting at tin , yards commenced at brrokfasl (imp. Several men were badly mauled, and ono had to lie. sent lo IliD hospital in an unconscious condition. One hundred soldiers have been sent to tho works. .

The referee in the football match believes the riot was deliberately organised. 'J'iuc rioters wrecked the dressing-rooms, but did not molest the officials. BLOODSHED PREDICTED. The Belfast Chamber of Commerce recently issued a cony of a lengtiliy reply which has been sent to the Prime Minister by the deputation from that Chamber who interviewed him in support of its report on tho Government of Ireland Bill.

The -document, which commences by pointing out that the scope and object of the report wore to show from a commercial and economic point of vimv what cfl'oct the proposals of tho Bill would have ou trade and commerce, and on the general welfare of the country, states: "We feel bound to inform you at the outset that, knowing the depth and strength of feeling which at present exists among tho masses of the people, we are deliberately convinced that, apart altogether from tho organised resistance to the establishment of an Irish Government which we know is being steadily prepared, and which can only bo put down by tho exercise of military force carried to the last extreme, no efforts of the peaceably disposed, nnd no action of the executive can prevent a collision of parties which will produce disorder and bloodshed unparalleled in our recent history, resulting in the paralysis of our, industries and in the arousing of sectarian and racial animosities which will not be allayed for years."