BELFAST RIOTS
CONTINUED DAY LONG. DEMAND FOB, RELIEF. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 12. There was slrirmishing with the police throughout the day.- In some of the back streets, the rioters employed children to dig cobblestones which were used as ammunition against the'police, a number of whom 1 have been taken to hospital with bad i bruises and cuts from bottles. .Mr Devlin states twelve thousand people in Belfast have been brought to starvation, owing to inadequate outdoor relief. A husband and two children receive only 16s per week and. when rent, coal, gas, and burial insurance is paid only four pence daily is left for food and clothing. Representations of the rioters demand outdoor relief on the British scale. The Government and poor law authorities are* already conferring regarding the problem.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1932, Page 6
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140BELFAST RIOTS Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1932, Page 6
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