I.R.A. DEMONSTRATIONS
RIOT AT BELFAST,
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]
(Recd. Feb. 12, 3 p.m.). BELFAST, February 11
The police, baton-charging for two hours, suppressed I.R.A. demonstrations of sympathy in connection with the Birmingham executions. The crowd fled, but reassembled. Men and women threw bottles, brickbats, and'pavingstones. A youth hurled a huge rock into a car full of police. An inspector threatened to fire a revolver. Several people were arrested. The police raided a club at Armagh, and prevented the reading of sympathetic resolutions from a window. Some church-goers wore crepe armlets.
Revolver shots, fired in Cork Barracks, wounded two Eireann Army sergeant's, one critically. A private was arrested. RIFLES STOLEN FROM CAMP BELFAST, February 11. A party of 1.R.A.. supporters, with a car, raided Kallykinlar camp, overpowered a sentry, and seized 30 rifles.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1940, Page 7
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