TENSION SPREADS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1932, Page 11

TENSION SPREADS

THROUGHOUT BELFAST

STEEET SKIRMISHES

INADEQUATE RELIEF

RIOTERS' DEMANDS

United Press Association—By Electrte Ieli« graph—CoDyrishfc (Received 13th October, 1 p.m.)' ' BELFAST, 12th October. The riots have recommenced^ The police, charging prevented the crowd from raiding a baker's cart. Several were injured and taken to hospital. The tension has spread throughout the city. Three thousand ( police are patrolling the danger zones, suppressing^ attempts at looting the smaller shops and attacking vehicles. \ The banks , are strongly guarded. ' Snipers again fired at the police, but an armoured car dispersed the mast threatening attack. . There were skirmishes with, the policy all day long in some back streets. That rioters employed children to dig ng cobblestones, which they used as ammunition against the police, a-- number of whom were taken to hospital ' with, bad bruises and cuts front bottles. . Mr. Devlin states that twelve; thousr and people in Belfast have been: brought to starvation owing to inadequate outdoor Telief. "A. husband, and wife and two children get only 16s a week. When rent, coal, gas, and burial insurance are paid, only 4d a day is left for food and clothing," hai says. - . . . \ ' ■ ' Bepresentatives of the rioters. d©« maud outdoor relief on. the BritisS scale. > . The Government and Poor: Law; authorities are already conferring oa the problem. A Special Court was summoned at midnight. Thirty-four men who wer» charged with riotous assembly were Temanded. Two Were charged with the attempted murder of a policeman. The situation then was quieter, except' in the 3Palls Boad area, where; policeman whoi showed themselves weraj sniped at. . • Armoured cars continued to patrol the streets all night long. During the riots four pawnshops wer«t pillaged, a lorry laden with beer was looted," three houses were burned to the ground, and thirty-one persons were injured and had to be treated at hospitals. The police used cars on whicK were mounted machine-guns, equipped with bird-cage tops to protect - thai crews from showers of stones.