BELFAST RIOTS
SPECIAL COURT AT MIDNIGHT ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE. ARMOURED CABS PATROL STREETS. London, October 11. In connection with the Belfast riots a special court was summoned at midnight and 34 men charged with riotous assemby 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 are sniped. Armoured cars continued to patrol all night long.
During the riots four pawnshops were pillaged, a lorry laden with beer was looted and three houses were burned to the ground. Thirty-one persons injure! were treated at hospitals. The police used ears mounted with machine guns and equipped with birdcage tops to protect the crews from showers of stones.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 257, 13 October 1932, Page 8
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