THE DERRY RIOTS.
SERIOUS DISTURBANCES. IB* Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association J London, August 13. There were thousands in the Londonderry streets. The Nationalists showered stones and bottles and fired ’revolvers at the procession. There was also a determined effort to break the police cordon, which was thrown off by a series of baton charges. The 'roughs severely beat several strangers. While rescuing an English visitor they maltreated the Mayor, Sir W. McLean, who was stoned and severely wounded on the head. The Nationalists stoned the Unionists in Foyle Street, and the latter fired revolvers at their assailants, wounding a constables Another Unionist kept the crowd at bay with a revolver, until mounted police rescued him by hitting the mob with the flats of their swords, injuring several. A number of Unionists were arrested. The mounted men made a final charge* at midnight, and cleared the streets.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 85, 14 August 1913, Page 2
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147THE DERRY RIOTS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 85, 14 August 1913, Page 2
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