BELFAST ROUSED.
PASSING OP HOME RULE.
SHOTS FIRED IN THE STREETS.
By Telegraph-Press Associatlon-Oopyrigh: (Roc. January 19, 5.5 p.m.). •
i London, January 18. The ! passing of tho Home Rule Bill through; the HouSe of Commons c?,used great excitement in Belfast, and the police restrained tho crowds of the rival faotions with difficulty. Fusillades of revolver shots were fired in tho principal streets. A man was accidentally shot, and was removed to the •hospital. A police commissioner, who was directing operations, was severely kicked and beaten. ' ' The crowds slowly dispersed. ,■ It has been reported' that the Nationalists intend to bury the Union Jack, in Falle Road, Belfast, and that the Unionists will burn Mr. Asquith in effigy at Helen's Bay, when the Duke of Devonshire moves the rejection of the Home Rule Bill in tho House of Lords, j There have been many bonfires in the Nationalist quarter of Belfast, but the police haye prevented collision between bands, of Nationalists ;and Unionists.' The military wero also in readiness at the barracks. The Unionists held a mock wake rcund an encoffined effigy labelled Home Rule.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1652, 20 January 1913, Page 7
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183BELFAST ROUSED. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1652, 20 January 1913, Page 7
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