MORE RIOTING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11767, 14 October 1932, Page 5

MORE RIOTING

TENSION SPREADS THROUGHOUT BELFAST. THREE THOUSAND POLICE PATROL STREETS. COBBLESTONES USED AS AMMUNITION. NUMBERS OF INJURED REMOVED TO HOSPITAL. (U.P.A, by Elec. Tel. Copyright) BELFAST, Oct. 12. The unemployed riots recommenced to-day. Police charging prevented a crowd from raiding a baker’s, cart. Several were injured and sent to hospital. The tension has spread throughout the city. Three thousand police are patrolling the danger zones and suppressing attempts at looting smaller shops and the attacking of vehicles. The banks are strongly guarded. Snipers are again firing at the police. but armoured cars dispersed the most threatening attacks. There, were skirmishes with police throughout the day in some hack streets. The rioters: employed children to dig up cobblestones, which they used as ammunition against the police; a number of whom were taken to hospital with had bruises and cuts from bottles. Mr. Devlin states that 12-000 people in Belfast have been brought to starvation owing to inadequate outdoor relief "A husband, his wife and two children only receive 16s a week," he said. ‘-When rent. coal, gas, burial and insurance is paid, only 4d a day is left for food and clothing.” Representatives of the rioters demand outdoor relief on the Blitish scale. The Government and poor law authorities already are conlerring regarding the problem.