BLOODSHED AT BELFAST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 August 1907, Page 3

BLOODSHED AT BELFAST.

MOST SERIOUS RIOTING RESUMED. KIOT ACT BEAD. TROOPS OOMPELLEED TO FIRE ON MOB. TWS KILLED AND HUNDREDS WOUNDED. Received 13th, 10.4 p.m. Loudon, August 13. Rioting was resumed at Belfast worse than on Sunday. The Culling Tree police barracks wjrc wrecked, and a number of police stoned and badly injured. The Riot Act was read. The military, who throughout showed great self-re-straint and patience, were compelled to charge 40 times. They fired twice on the mob, killing a man and a woman.

Stones and bottles were thrown by the rioters, and the lraton and bayonet charges and bullets of the tro>ps wounded hundreds, some seriouslv. I

The hospitals are full. Many officers: and eoldiers were maimed.

AN AWFUL TRAGEDY. STRIKERS RENDERED POSITION DESPERATE. TROOPS FIRE LOW ON TIIE JIOB. RIOTERS VAINLY APPEALED TO TO DESIST. RIOT SUBSIDES AT MTONIGIIT. Received 14th, 12.31 a.m. London, August 13. Matters became so desperate at Belfast that Captain Welsh, Military Magistrate at Belfast, ordered the foremost infantry line to present arms. A» their rifles were raised to their shoulders, the entire mob bore. down upon the troops. The order to "Fire" was then given.

The soldiers fired low down, and several rioters fell dead or wounded, ineluding a boy. Awful shrieks and groans followed the volley. The rioters lied.

Twice there was a brief renewal of the action, which led to a second volley, M the troops were nearly overwhelmed. Mr Larkin, a Labor leader, and seven! priests throughout vainly appealed to the rioters to desist

Finally the riot subsided at midnight The district was in darkness, lamps being extinguished.

WOMEN WOUNDED DURING RIOT. London, August 12. During the trouble In Belfast several women were accidentally wounded with bayonets. The rioting u confined to the Nationalist section of the city. The Daily Telegraph's Belfast correspondent reports that the infantry were rushed frequently and resisted to save themselves. Some of the crowd held a woman before them, the latter shrieking, "Jetu! Mary! You won't hurt a woman!"

A REACTIONARY M.P. London, August 12. Mr Grayson, member of the House of Commons, speaking of 'he Belfast riot, said the soldiers were weary of idleness and would like to spill a little blood. Eren if the people were without shrapnel they had broken bottles to throw.