Violence In Dublin

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31809, 14 October 1968, Page 17

Violence In Dublin

(N.Z P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) DUBLIN, October 13. More than 300 demonstrators battled with the police outside the British Embassy in Dublin last night in protest against Northern Ireland’s suppression of a civil rights march in Londonderry last week-end.

Ten youths were arrested in the clash. The demonstrators had gone to the embassy with a petition accusing the Protestant authorities in the North of discriminating against Roman Catholics. It was the first outbreak of violence in the predominantly Roman Catholic Irish Republic since 96 persons were injured in the Londonderry riots a week ago. After leaving the embassy,

the marchers paraded through Dublin smashing windows in Government buildings and the Shelboume Hotel, the scene of a clash between the police and Republican demon strators several weeks ago. The police report that many persons were injured outside the embassy, including a police superintendent hit on the head by a stone. The demonstrators had burned the Union Jack before marching to the embassy. About 100 policemen barred the immediate approaches to the embassy in Merrion Square, but running fights de veloped as they tried to disperse the demonstrators, some of whom used flagpoles to smash the windows of police patrol cars.