RIOTS RESUME

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 353, 14 October 1932, Page 5

RIOTS RESUME

(Press. Assn. —

starving thousands CHILDREN ASSIST BY DIGGING UP STONES POLICE CHARGE CROWD

By Telegraph. — Copyrlglif).

Rec. Oct. 13, 5.0 p.m. Belfast, Oct. 13. The riofs have re-commenceci. There Were skirmishes with the police throughout the day in someof the hack streets. ® The rioters employed children to dig c'ohblestones, which were used as ammunition against the police, a number of whom were taken to the hospital with had hruises and cuts from bottles. Mr. D'evlin states that 12,000 people in Belfast have been brought to the verge of starvation owing to inadequate outdoor relief. A husband, wife and two children receive only 16s a week, and when rent, coal, gas and burial insurance. are paid, only 4d daily is left for food and clothing." The representatives of the rioters demand outdoor relief on the British scale. The Government and poor law authorities are. already conferring'regarding the problem. The police, by charging, prevented the crowd raiding a baker's cart. Several were injured and sent to the hospital. The tension has spread throughout the city. Three thousand police are patrolling the danger zones, suppressing attempts at looting the smaller shops and the attacking of vehicles. The banks are strongly guarded. Snipers are again firing at the police but armoured cars dispersed the most threatening attacks.