BELFAST RIOTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1920, Page 5

BELFAST RIOTS.

FIGHTING IN THE STREETS. SHOPS STRED AND LOOTED, v MANY DISTRESSING SCENES. If Jflsgrtph.—Prws Assn.—Copyright. Received August 31, 9.5 p.m. ', '*■' " London, August 30. BidtJnJt continues in Belfast. : "' v In centres rival mobs are Sitting jib* to shops and looting othere. \ I'Plve weie killed and fifty-three were ' during the morning, including * c 'wbmatf'kllled by a revolver shot, and '■■ '« cMM oNkven killed while trying to ft -wJkoiife-& lunch. -Though' the Sinn Feiners were out- ', ■'' Itonffiered; many were armed with re- . TbTyws, while the Unionists had only § stones, but rivets and kidney-) jpofen weighing a pound apiece $W up ready for attack and de- , __pfio!flcs , 'tn>ppa were ordered out. ' repeated baton charges, and ■M tnd Women workers had to run a 11 J Wm^A i at atreet" firing and baton \ v "cl«m»'nef()re they reached the wbrk-,ut-ir<&»pL Tip offices of most of these were dfljid down, eo the workers returned home rival mobs, thus increastttt, ffia <nnfiuioii. ' Diltressmg scenes were witnessed in the Catholic quarter. Many families, taking advantage of any mil in the rioting, put their furniture into lorries and handcarts, and moved to a quieter district,, the families, headed by the father and mother, and followed by young children, walking behind the carts.—Aus.N,Z. Cable Assn. "A VERITABLE INFERNO." ' MOB CONTROL THE CITY. • * WOMEN VERY AGGRESSIVE. Received' August 31,10.40 p.m: - .■'■ Dublin, August 30. Belfast if H veritable inferno of strife aid riot*, and never before have such iiM'ki witnessed. ■Wflrtmg proceeds and business is sus- , pended, shop* herag barricaded. Armored cars with'police patrol the .' areas, but no sooner do they get control fa OM tfea than fighting,-intense and lenwHius, breaks out in another. Sinn,?einers have been the attackers tO-day, * bad melee following their stone-thfoffing at workmen's tramcars eajljpin. the morning, when stones flew in. «| directions, and for the remainder of the day the streets were delivered to great mob* of Protestants and' Catholics, Who harassed soldiers and police. To%' confusion was rendered worse by the screams of terrified women and girls. Tft«e have been prominent combatants, descending to hair-pulling. Indeed, their . aggressiveness even' excelled that of the . men.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. • .TROUBLE OVER HUNGER-STRIKERS. LABOR'S- APPEAL TO PREMIER. .'Received August 3L 7.55 p.m. London, August 30. Labffi.leaders representing all organised British Labor have appealed to Mr. Lloyd George "to .do the big thing" and release MeSweeney. / Sir Jae. Long has telegraphed to Lord StiuhfordWm requesting the King to renew* ak knighthood owing to the treatment of MeSweeney and other hun- • J*rt»trikers.—'Aus.-N.Z. Cable.Assn.