RIOTS IN BELFAST

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 12, 13 July 1935, Page 10

RIOTS IN BELFAST

POLICE CALLED OUT

MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED

WOMAN SHOT DEAD

L'nitcd I'ress -Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. :■ (Received July 13, 2 p.m.) LONDON, July 13. Hardly had Lord Craigavon told the Orangemen at Gilford that the prospects of Northern Ireland were bright and hopeful, when a fierce riot, broke out at Belfast, necessitating the proclamation of martial law. Lord Craigavon said that the recent conversations with Dominion Premiers had made him realise the importance of Ulster as a factor in Imperial affairs, in which Orangemen are destined to play an important part. - - The Belfast disturbance was precipitated in • the dockland • quarter, where stones were thrown and revolvers-fired from upper windows at a Scottish band which was returning in procession from the celebration of the Battle'of the Boyne. Pipers and drummers scornfully continued their march and music. Police reinforcements were rushed to the scene in an armoured car, and fired over the heads of the mob,' thousands of whom stampeded for refuge in the nearest buildings. ' ■ Mrs. Margaret Rodgers was killed and Mrs. Margaret Lang shot in the stomach, and is not expected to recover. A constable, a detective, and nearly forty others were wounded by revolver shots. The firing was believed to be more widely spread than was actually the case owing'to the volley-like sound of ' the traditional "lambeg" drums, which, are deafeningly beaten with the hands as.part of the ceremonies .until blood streams from I the performers' thumbs, .discolouring the drumheads. Parades in seventeen other centres passed off quietly.