CLASHES IN ULSTER
Republican Distarbances LONBON, March 28. Police with batons charged a tliousand people outside the Wilitown Oemet.ery, Belfast, when they had risen from their knees after .reqiting the Rosary at the Republican commemoration of the Easter rising of 1916. The authorities had banned the service in the cemetery, the gates of which were locked. The crowd knelt outside, after whieh a young Republxcan began a speeeh, saying "We have aecomplished that for which we came. " Accounts of" the subsequent happenings are conflicting, but it is clear that the police charge was met with a hail oi' bottles and stones. One constable is m iiospital and many people receive. minor injuries. Disturoances oceurred also in Gouni Mayo, where, though it is Irisk Erc. Btate territory, the Mmister of Juslic oanned Easter rebellion meetings. Ulashes with the police occurred Newport, Kilnicena and outside Oastie bar. Twcnty Reptiblieans and severai policemen wero injured. Forty arrests >vcre -**Mldl>i
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 61, 30 March 1937, Page 9
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