THE BELFAST RIOTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8510, 15 August 1907, Page 5

THE BELFAST RIOTS.

MADDEMED MOBS. Received Augnßti3j£ : ,'.7«47 a.m. LONDON- .August 13. Further details >of .the chow that for hours soldiers and cqh.stables were subjected Ao a bombardnent by paving stones and othermissies from 2 5 M0tto 3,000 people. : Women carried their aprons full dff ;eiones and other rriisiks to upper .«■ indows and joined in the fray. ; The troops, pursuing the rioters,? iUr.ed the butt eicds of their rifles. j. From the houses men hurled stones! rtsi showers, which came .-back, being itlsrown by the troops. The mobs were men and ywcmen rushing ki all directions and c.u-'sing the military.

'"he captain of ihe WelsEh military spj3 a magistrate iculled trtpon the CEQ A'd to disperse. .-Stones and groans wece the only response.

the cerder '.war given to thedroops to fire.

INFURIATED .SOLDIERY. FIXtIiAYONETS A£t:D -CHARGE, YELLIRG. HARD-TO-HAND FIGHTING. Recoi/ed August 14, 7.56 a.in. •LONDON, August IS. The /Jim-ss and The Telegraph apae that the soldiery , themselves, mway of whoxn-;W&jre wounded, became jinfuriated, :snd charged down tlie greets with .fixed bayonets, yelling. ,

No sooner had cavalry cleared the I thoroughfare* than the tcobs re-[ tersied, or purged up and d ; wn the [ side streets, * T ,v&ere their taetks were j repe&ted. ' Wien 3,GOG maddened people were in possession &$ Falls Road, the soldier? and the &cob fought hand-to-haiKs, &e troops .feeing driven back. DEATH FROM WOUNDS. LONDON, August 13. A third d<*ath from svounds has occurred at Belfast

Many houses were completely wrecked, and several streets previously paved with stonea entirely torn up.

TROOPS EXPOSED TO'INTERMITTENT ONSLAUGHTS.

STONE-THROWING BY WOMEN.

QUIETNESS NOW PREVAILS,

Received August 14, 10.9 p.m. LONDON, August 14,

One of the Royal Engineers' Searchlight Companies and apparatus has been hurried to Belfast. When the troops returned to the barracks on Monday night t'hey had been under intermittent onslaughts for seven hours. The Rifle Brigade and Sussex Regiment bore the brunt of the fight. The troops separated the Nationalist and Protestant quarters. The Pro testants loudly cheered the troops. The women rioters loosened stones, and for hours participated in stonethrowing. Everything is quiet now.

DEPUTATION TO THE LORD MAYOR. A CONDITIONAL PROMISE. Received August 14, 10.9 p.m. LONDON, August 14. The Lord Mayor of Belfast received a large deputation of the leading Catholics of the Falls Road district, and decided not to send any troops to the disturbed area unless the rioting was renewed.

The deputation promised to use its best endeavours to prevent any recurrence of the riots.

Many priests talked to the people. Mr J. Devlin, member of the House of Commons, and Mr Larkin, Labour Leader, addressed a meeting and induced the people to go to their homes.

TRADES UNIONISTS WILLING TO ARBITRATE. MR GRAYSON CRITICISED. Received August 14, 10.13 p.m. LONDON, August 14. In the House of Commons, the Right Hon. A. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, answering questions, mentioned the willingness of -the trades unionists in Belfast to arbitrate. He was hopeful of an early satisfactory result. The Board of Trade had placed two representatives at the disposal of the two parties. Questioned regarding Mr Grayson's speech, Mr Birrell remarked that this was not the time to p?.y much attention to wild language to which no importance was attached by any man. (Belfast cheers.) He added that the Belfast people, with all their faults, were unlikely to take any guidance from Mr Grayson. (General cheers.) (Mr Grayson, M.P., said that the soldiers were weary of idleness and would like to spill a little blood. If the people were without shrapnel they had broken bottles to throw.) BEHAVIOUR OF THE TROOPS. THE MILITARY REPORTS. Received August 14, 10.13 p.m. LONDON, August 14. In the House of Commons, the Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, read the military renorts showing the forbearance and

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steadinessidf 'the 'picket of«-.the Berkshire Regiment .on Saturday, when threequartersof ;the.mob were women and children, wwhile the men, remaining in the ixear, threw , paving stones and bottles. The Middlesex Dragoons, on Sunday, behaved admirably though mercilessly stoned. at short range. The mob,extinguished the street lamps and placed wire ropes across the streets impeding :.the. cavalry. The picket on Monday was hard pressed when the order to .fire was given. Seven roundeAvere ,fired. His/information was to;the<effeot that the participators in ithe .attacks were not . strikers, but&he mob. ; The military Lreports showed that the riots,were i[ ; mainly in the [Nationalist quarter in jl-Falls Road.