The First Blood

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 57, 28 July 1914, Page 5

The First Blood

FRUITING IN IRELAND. A Ot'X-RUNNING RATD UPSET. VOU'STEERS AND TROOPS IN | CONFLICT. SEVERAL CASUALTIES. 3y Cable -Press Association —Copyright Received 27, 10.35 p.m. London, July 27. The Dublin Nationalists planned a gun-running trip three weeks ago, but owing to a hitch it was postponed.

At ten o'clock on Sunday a thousand volunt.'"is marched out of Dublin, accompanivl l>y a signalling corps, ambulance, ;i:m! (our food waggons. They reached 11 .nvth at noon. Simultaneously a fifiy-i.m yacht, painted white, and nameless, apparently an American boat, steered by a woman —or, more probably, a man in woman's attire—approached the quay. The company of volunteers, armed " long nak Datons, seized the harbor, and cover.,! the coastguardsmen with revolvers.

Within linlf-an-hour 2600 rifles were landed ofi tiic quays, each in two pieoes. They wore hastily put together, un;il the thoiH'ind volunteers had secured a rifle apietv. The rest wcto loaded into motor-cars and conveyed to the Norrt Country and Dublin. The ammunition was placed in food waggons. '

FURTHER DETAILS OF THE OUTBREAK. SCOTTISH BORDERERS' BAYONET CHARGE. POLICE CONSTABLES DISOBEY ORDERS. Received 27, 9.10 p.m. London, July 27. Directly the coastguards regained their freedom they telephoned to Dublin, and three hundred police met the volunteers marching back. _ At Clontarf they took up positions on either aide of the road, and simultaneously a tramload of Scottish Borderers arrived. They were ordered to fix bayonets, and doubled to meet the volunteers. The latter sought to take another road, hoping to reach Dublin without interruption, but the police momentarily prevented their escape. A conflict ensued, the volunteers firing revolvers and slightly wounding two soldiers. Several constables received scaip woundß with butt-ends of rifles.

Twenty constables refused to obey the or3er to chafge, crying, "We are Irishmen!"

The volunteers meanwhile loudly demanded ammunition, but the waggons had already escaped. Only twenty rifles were captured. The bullj of the volunteers scattered and escaped to the fields.

MERGE AND DETERMINED ATTACK. SEVERAL VOLLEYS FIRED. Received 27, 0.15 p.m. 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 up by charging with bayonets and scattering the crowd. Eye-witnesses state 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. A SUGGESTIVE PARADE GROUND. MORE INFLAMMATORY SPEECHES. REPEATING THE ORANGEMEN'S TACTICS. . Received £57, 10 p.m. London, July 27. A Nationalisti' review was held, on the summit of Devil's Bit mountain, In Mid-Tipperary. A large number of corps were equipped, and some aimed 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 says 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 must offend every rightthinking man. "We want to know why the authorities are passive in Ulst-. r and active at Dublin," says the paper. "The Irish have cut a sorry figure for the last eighteen months."

MOVING THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Times and Sydney Sun Services. ' Received 27, 5.25 p.m. London, July 27. The "Ulster Provisional Government has made elaborate arrangements for the accommodation of women and children at Ttelfast, prior to their removal across the Channel to partake of the hospitality of supporters in Glasgow and Liverpool. DESTRUCTIVE MOBS IN DUBLIN. A TRAM-CAR WRECKED. ISOLATED SOLDIERS MALTREATED. Received 27, 1.1.45 p.m. London, July 27. Two volleys were, fired at Metal Bridge, and fifteen were shot. Three volleys were fired at Wellington Bridge, and a number were shot. There arc thirty cases of bullet wounds in the Jervois Street Hospital alone, including a child of -ten years. Some estimate that a hundred were wounded, of whom thirty eases «,re serious. There have- lieen four deaths already. The excitement in Dublin increased in the evening. A moh tvi<vl to enter the were confined, and lired revolvers and hooted tlie 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. NATIONALISTS AND THE AMENDING BILL. AN IMPORTANT GATHERING. Received 28, 1*2.50 a.m. London, July 27. The significance of the Dublin affray is increased by the fact that the Nationalists will meet to-day to decide their attitude towards the Amending Bill, in which the Government desire to incorporate the newest proposals for settlement and remit to the House of Lords. Mr. Redmond has hitherto refused to agree to the Amending Bill unless the Unionists accept it as a settlement.

' DUBLIN NATIONALISTS SHOT. BY BRITISH TROOPS. London, July 26. On Sunday morning a yacht landed 2500 rides and 170,000 rounds of ammunition at Howth (10 miles from Dublin) for Nationalist volunteers, meanwhile cutting the telegraph wires and stopping communication with Dublin. . Motor-ears were used to convey the arms to the interior. The police and Scottish Borderers went to Howth in the afternoon and seized 100 rifles, and returned to Dublin. A crowd of youths followed, stoning and booing the troops and cheering for Mr. Redmond. The troops fired several volleys. They killed three and wounded forty, some mortally. The wounded included women and children. s MORE AMMUNITION SEIZED. London, July 26. Lieut.-General Sir A. Paget, OfficetCommanding the Forces in Ireland, has visited the King. The police of Birmingham seized 40,000 rounds of ammunition destined for Ireland.