SERIOUS CONCERN
THE IRISH BORDER DISORDERS.
SOME RESTLESSNESS AT BELFAST
UNEMPLOYMENT ADDS TO THE DANGER.
(United Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) BELFAST, August 17. The disorders on the Free State border are causing anxiety to the, TJlstei Government, which is resolve^l_to stamp out lawlessness also to prevent a recrudescence of the o d feud beLeS Orangemen and Catholics in Bet fast where restless tendencies have Deen manifested by the lower elements riome districts/ The prevalence of unemnloyment is an added danger m SaSto. in which young »ooliSS smash and loot shop wmdows.
SHOPS LOOTED BY MOBS.
DAMAGE TO A CONVENT.
(United Press Association— Copyrights LONDON, August 17. Mobs at Portadown (Coimty Armagh) smashed windows and looted shops late on Sunday night and attempted to batter down; the-gates of * conventLorry loads of police were rushed fiom BelfYst, and special constables were mobilised. • . , „„j + rM <i Telephone wires were cut and trees felled and spread over the roads to prevent Hibernians reaching.Armagh, where the police charged with batons and quelled the disturbances A crowd at Lisburn set fire to a shop and damaged a convent.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 261, 18 August 1931, Page 5
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