OUTBREAK IN BELFAST]

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1932, Page 7

OUTBREAK IN BELFAST]

FIGHTING IN STREETS

POLICE FORCED TO FIRE

ACTION OF UNEMPLOYED

United Press Association—By Electric 3>lw graph—Copyright. '■''.■ (Received 12th October, 1 p.m.); ! BELFAST, 11th October. ■ Daylong unemployed-rioting cuk minated in fighting between , the ■_ police and the mob in which Samuelj ' Baxter, 30, was killed. The authors ties are imposing a curfew ordin* Mice between ,11. p.m. and 5 a.nv Anyone found in the streets between those hours will be arrested. The police, reinforced by country! constables, by repeated baton charges and patrolling the streets in arm* oured cars, suppressed in the morning attempts to organise a march o!J 80,000 upon the workhouse to de< niand higher unemployed relief, The rioters attempted to stop tramd ' and buses by* barricades, stoning ant^ injuring the drivers and conductors* The mob, by stone-throwing, at* tempted to rescue three leaders what were being conveyed to the policy station in an armoured car, but were! dispersed by police charges. Tlie disturbances were more seri* ous in the afternoon, wlien Fallsfi road was barricaded and the policed bombarded with numerous missiles* Many shop windows were broken* and looting was "widespread. Arme(| reinforcements; arrived and fired ii^ reply to sniping from the mob* which dispersed, leaving Baxter, whof reported to_have had no share in* the rioting, dead. Fighting was rei riewed in the evening. Many ar4 in hospital, including twelve will* v bullet wounds. Two of these are inj a critical condition. Non-partici-pants in the rioting were shot, including a man taking his son to school and a boy in.a workshop..: The mob dug trenches, barricacfeU the streets, seized a Corporation bus* ejected the. passengers, and drove off in the vehicle. They.also looted a lorry carrying stout. Six armed civilians seized a policeman an 4 stole his revolver and ammunitions AU trams and buses were stopped* Thousands congregated in the streets^ which 2000 armed police^are patrol* ling with a. cordon round ■ the citjf to .prevent any entrance. ~