The Dublin Murders.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 82, 28 July 1914, Page 5

The Dublin Murders.

HOME RULE FOB IRELAND.

THE SHOCKING INCIDENT.

VOLLEYS BY THE SOLDIERS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, July 27.

Twenty volunteers were wounded, six seriously, including M. J. Judge, citizen officer in the Nationalist volunteers, who was seriously wounded with a bayonet in the stomach.

As the Borderers reached Dublin from Clontarf, a hostile crowd met them on the Bachelors’ Walk, and made a fierce and determined attack on the soldiers. Several efforts were made to persuade the crowd to desist from stoning.

Eventually twenty were detailed to check the onward rush by firing a volley. The soldiers followed U2> by charging with bayonets and scattering the crowd.

Eye-witnesses states that few of the soldiers rushed.

The troops fired another volley in Ship street, and wounded three men.

Another hostile crowd met the soldiers at O’Connel Bridge, where a volley was fired and several wounded.

Two volleys were fired at Metal Bridge, and fifteen were shot. Three volleys were fired at Wellington Bridge, and a number were shot. There are thirty cases of bullet wounds in the Jervois Street Hospital alone, including a child of ten years.

FOUR DEATHS REPORTED.

Some estimate that a hundred were wounded, of whom thirty cases are serious. There have been four deaths already. The excitement in Dublin increased in the evening. A mob tried to enter the barracks where the Scottish Borderers were confined, and fired revolvers and hooted the other troops. The crowd wrecked a tramcar in which a soldier was seated, and savagely kicked and beat other isolated soldiers, including two Borderers, who were pulled from their cycles and beaten, and their cycles thrown into the river Liffey. EFFECT UPON THE STOCK EXCHANGE. BUSINESS AT A STANDSTILL. INTENSE FEELING IN DUBLIN. (Received 10.0 a.m.) ' London, July 27.

Tho Stock Exchange is demoralised. Consols 'touched 71, which is a record. One receipt of the sensational Continental telegrams they recovered and closed at 72J. Colonial and Government stocks nominally unchanged, but business is almost at a standstill. Mr Birrell’s statement caused a sensation in the Lobbies, but the European crisis overshadows the Nationalist one.

The feeling in Dublin is intense

The Scottish Borderers have been ordered to The Curragh, and will leave to-night.

The crowd remained near the soldiers, believing they carried blank cartridges. Constables who refused to charge at Clontary have been arrested. When the Nationalist volunteers were ordered to disarm, they handed their rifles to the residents living in Dublin Bay, who buried them. The weapons ivere removed to the Nationalists secret depot to-day.

IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

POLICE COMMISSIONER SUS-

PENDED.

"THEY’RE THE MURDERERS!”

FULL INQUIRY TO BE HELD.

(Received 10.45 a.m.) London, July 27

Mr Redmond presided at a meeting of Nationalists in the House of Commons. It is understood they decided not to oppose the amending Bill on the understanding that the Government would propose drastic changes in committee.

Mr Redmond will move the adjournment to-night to discuss tho Dublin incident.

Mr Asquith announced that the Amending Bill will noV'be take'll tomorroAV, as it Avould bo unfair to ask the Nationalists to proceed with the Bill in view of the deplorable events in Dublin.

Air Birrell, in reply to Mr Redmond, said Mr W. V. Harrel, Assistant Commissioner of Police, requisitioned tho military on his oavu responsibility. Mr Harrel had been suspended, pending an enquiry.

Air Redmond said he ought to bo hanged. Lord Robert Cecil declared that Ministers ought to be hanged.—(Opposition applause).

Mr Amery (Unionist): “They’re tho murderers”. Mr Birrell added that some soldiers became exasperated, and fired without orders. The officers succeeded in stopping the firing immediately, but three had been killed and thirty-two injured. A considerable number of soldiers were severely injured. A full enquiry into the conduct of the military would be held immediately. Mr Devlin asked: “Should there be anv differentiation in favour of

armed Ulster volunteers marching through Belfast?” Mr Birrell did not reply.

A NATIONALIST REVIEW.

London, July 27

A Nationalists’ review was held on the summit of Devil’s Bit mountain, in Mid-Tipperary. A large number of corps were equipped, and some armed members of the Provisional Committee at Dublin, in impassioned speeches declared that if civil war came the Irish regiments in the British Army would support the Nationalist volunteers.

The Chronicle’s Dublin correspondent say's that the tragedy will react on the political situation. The Nationalists are only doing what the Orangemen have done with impunity. It is obvious that discrimination muse offend every right-thinking man. “We want to know why the authorities are passive in Ulster and active at Dublin,” says the paper. “The Irish have cut a sorry figure for the last eighteen months.” THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, July 27. ; The Ulster Provisional Government has made elaborate arrangements lor ren atßelfast the shrdlu cmfwyp the accommodation of women and children at Belfast, prior to their removal across the Channel to partake of the hospitality of supporters in Glasgow and Liverpool.