IRISH RIOTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 37, 13 February 1934, Page 7

IRISH RIOTING.

Disturbances at Blue Shirts' Meetings. TEAR BOMBS AND BLANK SHOT. DUBLIN, February 12. Rioting occurred when a party of Blue Shirts were marching to the station to enter a train for Dundalk where Mr. W. T. Cosgrave was to address a meeting. A crowd suddenly attacked the Blue Shirts and soldiers had to be rushed from Dublin to Drogheda in lorries. The mob stoned the soldiers, who retaliated by throwing tear-gas bombs and firing blank cartridges over the heads of the demonstrators. Similar scenes were witnessed when the Blue Shirts returned from Dundalk, ■ and 20 were injured. ' Drogheda was shaken by an explosion which wrecked a house occupied by a septuagenarian, Mrs. McCrory, who was • a witness in the recent hearing by a • tribunal of a charge of robbery against ' a member of the United Ireland party. . Mrs. McCrory was found unconscious > after the explosion.

A crowd tried to break up Mr. Cosgrave's meeting, but soldiers arrived on the scene. Meetings of Blue Shirts in Kerry also were subjected to violent interruptions. FARMERS' THREAT. STRIKE FOR RATE RELIEF. ("Times" Cables.) LONDON, February 12. The Cork correspondent of "The Times" reports that the farmers in that county have passed a resolution declaring their inability to discharge their normal obligations and demanding a more even distribution of the cost of the economic war with Britain, also relief from the payment of rates and annuities. Failing the granting erf these demands a national strike of farmers will be called.