BELFAST RIOTERS

Evening Star, Issue 21232, 13 October 1932, Page 9

BELFAST RIOTERS

THE SITUATION QUIETER SOME PILLAGING AND BURNING Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, October 11. A special court was summoned at midnight, and thirty-four men were charged with riotous assembly and remanded. Two were charged with the attempted murder of a policeman. The situation is quieter, except in the Falls road area, where policemen who showed themselves were sniped at. Armoured cars continued to patrol the streets all night long. During the riots four pawnshops were pillaged, a lorry laden with beer was looted, three houses were burned to the ground, and thirty-one persons were injured and treated at hospitals. The police used cars mounted with machine guns and equipped with birdcage tops to protect the crews from showers of stones. TENSION CONTINUES FURTHER OUTBREAKS REPORTED BELFAST, October 12. (Received October 13, at 9.40 a.m.) The riots recommenced. The police, charging, prevented the crowd from raiding a baker’s cart. Several persons were injured and sent to hospital. Tension spread throughout the city, 3.000 police patrolling the danger zones, suppressing attempts at looting the smaller shops and the attacking of vehicles and banks. Strongly-guarded snipers were again firing at the police, but armoured cars dispersed a most threatening attack. COBBLE STONES AS AMMUNITION NUMBERS OF POLICE INJURED LONDON, October 12. (Received October 13, at 1 p.m.) There were skirmishes with the police throughout the day in Belfast. Children were employed to dig cobblestones, which were used as ammunition against the police, a number of whom were taken to hospital with bad bruises and cuts from bottles. Mr J. Devlin, M.P., states that 12.000 people in Belfast have been brought to starvation owing to inader quate outdoor relief. “ A husband and wife and two, children receive only 16s a week. When rent, coal, gas, and burial insurance are paid only 4d daily is left for food and clothing.” Representatives of the rioters demand outdoor relief on the British scale. The Government and poor law authorities are already conferring regarding the problem.