RELIGIOUS FIGHT
INSULTS AND STONES MINGLE IN FRACAS ORANGEMEN MISLED LONDON. Monday. Fifteen persons were injured, including a police sergeant and two constables, in anti-Roman Catholic riots at Everton, the Orangemen's district of Liverpool. An unfounded rumour was spread at. midnight on Saturday to the effect that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Dr. R. Downey, was visiting the district to consecrate a new presbytery. Disturbances continued throughout the night and resulted in six people being sent to pitalinsulting references to the archbishop were chalked on a wall on the presbytery. A woman came out of the building to wash these oft the wall and was mobbed. Windows Were broken "and railings were torn out. Free fighting led to the police making baton charges. They were met with volleys of stones. Strong forces of police guarded the Roman Catholic churches yesterday.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1036, 29 July 1930, Page 9
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