A DONNYBROOK FAIR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 21, 17 September 1912, Page 5

A DONNYBROOK FAIR.

RIOT OVER HOME RULE

UNIONISTS’ ONLY ARGUMENT

London, September 16

Over a thousand fought grimly for half an hour at Belfast. A hundred wore injured and sixty sent to the hospital. Manv had fractured skulls. One constable lost an eye. The troops were confined to barracks in apprehension of further trouble in the shipyards.

Mr. Dillon, speaking at Kells, County Meath, declared that the Unionists’ only argument against Home Rule was the bludgeon, the boot ami iron nuts. The Orange idea of civil war was f i attack their fellow-countrymen when in a majority of ten_to one. Ho denounced the Duke of Norfolk for participating in the Blenheim meeting, and not protesting against Mr. D inar Law’s approval, of Orangemen kicking Catholics to death at Belfast. He challenged him to condemn the speech. - FIGHTING AT THE SHIPYARDS. (Received 10.35 n.in.) Loudon, September 16. As a result of the football riot, many of Harland and Wolff’s workers are afraid to resume work. Sectarian fighting at the shipyards commenced at breakfast time. Several were badly mauled. One man was removed to the hospital in an unconscious condition. One hundred soldiers have been sent to the works.