RIOTS IN IRELAND

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 53, 13 February 1934, Page 9

RIOTS IN IRELAND

BLUE SHIRTS ATTACKED Soldiers Rushed to Scene STONES AND GAS-BOMBS USED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright LONDON, Feb. 12. Rioting occurred at Drogheda when a party of Blue Shirts were marching to the station to entrain for Dundalk, where Mr Cosgrave was addressing a meeting. A crowd suddenly attacked them, necessitating soldiers being rushed from Dublin in lorries. The mob then stoned the soldiers, who retaliated with tear-gas bombs and fired blank shots over the heads of the crowd. There were similar scenes when the Blue Shirts returned from Dundalk. Twenty were injured. Drogheda was shaken by an explosion which wrecked a house occupied by the septuagenarian mother of Me McCrory, a witnes’s at a recent tribunal hearing in connection with the robbery of a United Irelander. Mrs McCrory was found unconscious. A crowd tried to break up Mr Cosgrave’s meeting, but soldiers arrived. A Blue Shirt meeting at Kerry was also subjected to violent interruptions. FARMERS’ DEMANDS National Strike Threatened LONDON, Feb. 12. “The Times’s’’ Cork correspondent states that farmers passed a resolution to enable the discharge’of normal obligations and demanded a more even distribution of the cost of the economic war and relief from rates and annuities; otherwise they will call a national strike of farmers.