RIOTS IN BELFAST

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 290, 1 September 1920, Page 7

RIOTS IN BELFAST

SANGUINARY FIGHTING IN THE STREETS

SHOPS FIRED AND LOOTED

BY RIVAL MOBS

DISTRESSING SCENES (By Telezraph-Presa Assooiatlon-OoiiyrleM London, August 30. Rioting was resumed in Belfast on Monday. Tho military -used an armoured car, and a man and a woman wero shot.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec! August 31, 9.5 p.m.) London, August 30. Rioting continues in Belfast in half a dozen centres, rival mobs setting fire to shops and looting the others. Five were, killed and fifty-three wounded durinj the morning, including a woman killed by a revolver shot and a child of eleven killed while trying to get home to lunch. Though the Sinn Feiners were outnumbered, many of them were armed with revolvers, while the Unionists had only paving-stones, rivets, and kidney-shaped pavers weighing a t pound apiece piled up ready for attack or defence. Additional troops were ordered out, and the police made repeated baton charges, and men and women workers had to run the gauntlet of street firing and baton charges before they reached the workshops and offices. Most of these closed down, and the workers returnedhome or joined the rival mobs, thus increasing the confusion. Distressing scenes were,, witnessed in the Catholic quarter, many families taking advantage of any lull in the rioting to put their furniture into lorries and handcarts, and moved to a quieter district, tho families. headed by the father and mother, followed by the young children, walking behind the carts.—Alis.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

INFERNO OF STRIFE BUSINESS SUSPENDED AND SHOPS BARRICADED. (Roc. August 31, 10.40 p.m.) Dublin, August 80. Belfast is a veritable inferno of strife and riot. Never before have such scenes been witnessed. Fighting proceeds the round of the clock, business is suspended and shops aro barricaded; Armoured cars with police patrol areas, but no sooner do they get control in one area than fighting, intense and ferocious, breaks out in another. The Sinn leiners have been the attackers to-day, a bad melee following their stone-throwing at .workmen's tramcars early in _ the morning. Stones flew in all directions, and for the remainder of tho day tho streots were delivered to great mobs of Protestants and Catholics, who harassed the soldiers and police. The confusion was rendered -worse by the screams of terrified women and girls. These have been prominent combatants, descending to hairpulling. Indeed, their aggressiveness even excelled that of the men. —"The Times."