ORANGE RIOTS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1932, Page 5

ORANGE RIOTS

BELFAST ATTACKS POLICE SCATTER PARTICIPANTS. (United Press Association—By Electric jl ph—Copyright.) LONDON, Pjuly 16. 'The disturbances nav-q 'been renewed in Bvlfaet. The “Manchester Guardian” states that the curfew may now be enioieed at Belfast, toi- the first tim'e for ten yet rs. .-•-■■■

The Protestants there attacked the Catholic district, .women and children initiating a f'usJade of stone throwing. The attackers broke the windows of almost every house nearby. A Second disturbance followed. This was an attempt by one hundred men and youths, who were accompanied by a. mock band to enter the Cathodic district of Belfast. ' The police scattered them with a truncheon charge. DISTURBANCE AT LIVERPOOL. LONDON, July 16. The windows that were damaged in Thursday's Orange riot in Liverpool were those in the Anglican Cathedral of Liverpool. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool (Most l!Sv, Dr I' Downey) deplored th'gi disorders in Liverpool, in which the Anglican Oathedral was damaged, The Archbishop says that he hopes that Catholics did not participate. He adds ;• ylt is becoming difficult to restrain people who are being subject to vanton provocation.”

emergency tariffs Bill was resumed, Mr Sean McEntee’s motion to guillotine the Bill was carried by 69 to 55, so that the Bill will be passed through all stages to-day. Mr Patrick McGilligan (Opposition) s/iid the Government was fooiieh enough to believe that Great Britain did not see j the drilling in the Free State, the illegal possession of arms, the tearing-down of the Union Jack. Ireland was by the pride of one man, name'y,' the President, in order to legitimatize his past, whereof he was .so proud. Tlie Bill was passed by 63 to 57 •votes, and goes to the Senate on July 18. IRELAND AND OTTAWA. INTENDS TO BE FREE. • - ' ; QUEBEC, July. 16." “Ireland intends to be fr'se, and she. will be free,’’ declared Mr Sean T. O’Kehy, the head of the Irish F'ree State delegation to, the Ottawa Conference, which arrived by the. liner “Laurentic” on Saturday. He emphasised that the Irish delegation going to Ottawa were concerned with economic questions. It thus was not hi 3 object to inject into the Conference matters of political concern.' "Ireland,’’ he said, “looks -for a larger share of inter-Empire trade, and she is prepared to approach this Conference on the basis of mutual .advantage.' Other members of the Free State party w-e'r e much more inclined to express themselves freely on the Free State-United Kingdom differences, while some interest was expressed regarding the reaction of Canadian public opinion thereon. The Free State delegation approaches ■ti'va Ottawa Conference with som 0 uncertainty in' view of the collapse of the negotiations at London between Mr de Valera and Mr R. MacDonald.

Mr O'Kelly said that instructions would be received in Ottawa. However, in any case, he did feel free to enter into arrangements wtih the other Dominions respecting trading advantages.

APPEAL TO ALL RELIGIONS

“TO END WICKED DISPUTE.”

iTteceh ed this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. Mr Lansburg has telegraphed the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Pope, ihe Chief Rabbi and the President of the Free Church' -urging that in the “name of common religion joint action to end the senseless, wicked, Anglo-Irish dispute, should bo taken by Arbitration. Mutual peace is more important to the nation than punctilious money.” Addressing Northumberland miners, Mr Lansbury said that the deadlock disgraced the Irish as wall as his own statesmen. One side should bend toward final solution.. “We have got to live beside Ireland, and it is a tramprry dispute compared with the money involved in Germany and Austria where much patience has been shown.”