THE BELFAST RIOTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8510, 14 August 1907, Page 5

THE BELFAST RIOTS.

INFANTRY .RUSHES .RESISTED. WOMEN WOUNDED WITH BAYONETS. Received August 13, -7 t .49 a.m. LONDON, August 12. The Daily Telegraph's Belfast correspondent that the infantry rushes were .frequently resisted. To save .themselves some of the crowd held women before .them, the ilafiar shrieking: "Jesu and Mary, you won't hurt.?, woman." During the trouble in Belfast .several women were accidentally wounded by bayonets. The rioting is confined t.c the Nationalist sections of the city. Mi* Grayson, M.P., said that the isoldiars were weary of idleness,and would ]?ice to spill a little blood. If the people weve without shrapnel they Jas.d broken bottles to throw.

SOLDIERS FIRE ON THE MOB

HUNDREDS WOUNDED.

OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS MAIMED.

Received August 13. .4 p.m. LONDON, August 13,

Renewed rioting took at Belfast, and was worse than on Sunflay. Culling Tree Police barracks were wrecked, and a number of the police were stoned, and badly injured. The Riot Act was read, and the military, who throughout showed great self restraint and patience, were compelled to charge forty tiiisaes, and fired twice on the 1110b, killing a man and a .woman. Stones and bottfes were thrown by the rioters, and the baton and bayonet charges, and the bullets of the troops wounded hundreds, some seriously. The hospitals are full, and many officers and soldiers were-maimed.

A DESPERATE SITUATION. RIOTERS SHOT DEAD. A DETERMINED MOB. Received August 14, 12.34 a.m. LONDON, August 13. Matters became so desperate at Belfast that Captain Welsh, Military Magistrate, ordered the foremost of the infantry line to present arms. As the rifles were raised to the shoulder, the entire mob bore down upon the troops. The order to fire was then given. The soldiers fired low down. Several rioters fell dead or wounded, including a boy. Awful shrieks and groans followed the volley. The rioters then fled, but on two occasions afterwards there was a brief renewal of action, which led to a second volley, as the troops were nearly overwhelmed. Mr Larkin, Labour Leader, and several priests thoughout vainly appealed to the rioters to'desist. Finally the riot subsided a midnight. The district was in darkness,, owing to the lamps having been extinguished.