BELFAST RIOTS
NUMEROUS ASSAULTS CATHOLICS ABSTAIN FROM WORK. (Received July 31, 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 30. The Right Hon. A. Birrell (Chief Secretary for Ireland), speaking in the House of Commons, said that eighty assaults had been committed in Harland and Wolff's yards in a month, five of them endangering life. A majority of Catholics were abstaining from work. Two battalions of troops had already been sent to Belfast , and a third was being organised. (Received Last Night,' 9.25 o'clock.) LONDON, July 31. Messrs Harland and Wolff's men, promising to oxert their influence to prevent disturbances, which are mainly caused by disorderly youths, the shipwrights and drillers have been reinstated, and other departments will restart as soon as possible.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10683, 1 August 1912, Page 5
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119BELFAST RIOTS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10683, 1 August 1912, Page 5
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