ANTI-CATHOLIC RIOTS
ORANGEMEN’S ALL NIGHT ATTACK. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, July 27. Fifteen persons, including a police sergeant and two constables, were injured during the week-end, when there was anti-Catholic rioting at / -Jj [-,‘i p 13 Eeverton. an Arangemen’s district, in Liverpool. There was an unfounded rumour •spread at midnignt on Saturday that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool was visiting the district to consecrate a new Presbytery. The disturbances were continued throughout Saturday night, and they resulted .in six persons being .sent to hospital. One woman, on coming out of a i'resliytery in order to wash off insults to the Archbishop of Liverpool that had been chalked on the wall was I mobbed, and the windows of the Presbytery were smashed and the railings were torn up. Free fighting led to police baton charges, which were met by volleys of stones. Strong forces of police guarded the Roman Catholic Churches of Liverpool on Sunday.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1930, Page 5
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157ANTI-CATHOLIC RIOTS Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1930, Page 5
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