RIOTS IN BELFAST

Gisborne Times, 13 October 1932, Page 5

RIOTS IN BELFAST

ONE MAN KILLED; MANY IN

HOSPITAL

ALL-DAY FIGHTING

TRENCHES AND BARRICADES

RIFLE SNIPING IN STREETS

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) BELFAST, Oct. If.

Daylong unemployed rioting culminated in fighting between the police and a mob wherein Samuel Baxter, 39, was killed. The authorities are imposing a curlew''between II p.m. and 5 a.rn., and anyone found in the streets is arrested .

Thu police, reinforced by country constables, by repeated baton charges. suppressed morning attempts to organise a march of 80,000 upon a workhouse to demand higher unemployed reliefThe rioters attempted to stop trams and buses by barricades, stoning and injuring the drivers a.nd conductors.

A mob attempted to rescue three leaders who were being conveyed to the police station by an armoured car, but va s dispersed by police charges.

ABMED REINFORCEMENTS FIRE ON MOB.

The disturbances were mure serious in the afternoon, when Falls road was barricaded.

The police were bombarded with li u merous missi le s.

Many shop windows were broken, and looting was widespread. Armed reinforcements arrived and firej in reply to sniping- from the mob, which dispersed, leaving Baxter, who was reported not to have shared in the rioting, dead.

Fighting was renewed in tile evening, and many were taken to hospital. including 12 with bullet wound-, two of whom are in a critical condition.

Non-participants in the rioting were shot, including a man who was taking his son in school, and a boy irom a workshop.

POLICE CORDON ROUND CITY

The mob dug trenches, barricaded the streets, seized a corporation bus. ejected the passengers, and drove off in the vehicle. _ They also looted a lorry carrying stout. Six armed civilians seized a policeman and stole his revolver and ammunition-

All tram- and buses were stopped, and thousand.; congregated fin the streets, which 2000 armed police al 'e patrolling. 'They placed a cordon round the city, preventing the entrance of any person from outside.

Three incendiary fires broke out after 10 o’clock at night.

"WE MUST HAVE BREAD

Many women, shouting. 'We must have bread," participated.

There was a terrific onslaught of stones in the Falls district. In the afternoon the riotem burned the corporation’s huts and smashed sewer pipes and road repairing implements. The lighting in the evening was followed by further attempts at loot-

One hundred and fifty police, armed with rilles and bayonets, marching in the disturbed areas, were sniped at and replied with rifles, aided by armored ears’ searchlights, which were necessary as the street lumps had been smashed.

Four policemen were stoned. The Lord Mayor called a special meeting to demand that the Government should promptly relieve the distress and starvation of the unemployed, who are contending that- the wages under relief schemes were inadequate.

SPECIAL COURT AT MIDNIGHT

SITUATIQX QUIETER

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A special court- was summoned at midnight. Thirty-four men charged with riotous assembly were remanded. Two were charged with the attempted murder of a policeman.

The situation is quieter except in the Falls road area, where policemen showing .themselves were sniped Armoured ears continued to patrol all night long. During the riots lour pawnshops were pillaged, a lorry laden with beer being looted, and three houses were burned to the ground. Thirty-one injured persons were itreated at the hospitals. The police used cars mounted with maeliiue-guns equipped with birdcage tops to protect the crews from the showers of stones-