RIOTING RENEWED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 269, 13 October 1932, Page 7

RIOTING RENEWED

TENSION IN BELFAST. BANKS STRONGLY GUARDED. SUPPRESSION OF LOOTING. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received October 13, 9.40 a.m. BELFAST, Oct. 12. The riots in the city have recommenced. Charging by the police prevented the crowd from raiding a baker’s cart, several being injured and sent to hospital.

Tho tension has spread through the city. Three thousand police are patrolling the danger zones suppressing attempts at looting the smaller shops and the attacking of vehicles. The banks are strongly guarded. Snipers again fired at the police, but armoured cars dispersed the most threatening attack.

SKIRMISHES WITH POLICE

COBBLESTONES AS AMMUNITION.

■ Received October 13, 12.50 p.m/ LONDON, Oct. 12. There were skirmishes with the police throughout the day. In some of the back streets the rioters employed children to dig up the cobblestones which were used as ammunition against the police, a number of whom were taken to hospital with bad bruises and cuts from bottles. Mr J. Devlin, M.P., states that 12,000 people in Belfast have been brought to starvation owing to the inadequate outdoor relief. “A husband, wife and two children receive only 16s a week,” he said. “When rent, coal, gas and burial insurance are paid only 4d per day is left for food and clothing.” Representatives of the rioters demand outdoor relief on the British scale. The Government and the poor law authorities are already conferring regarding the problem.

MANY PERSONS IN HOSPITAL. LONDON, Oct. 12. A special Court was summoned in Belfast at midnight in connection with the rioting, when 34 men were charged with riotous assembly and remanded. Two were charged with tho attempted murder of a policeman. Tho situation is quieter except in the Falls Road area, where policemen showing themselves were sniped at. Armoured cars continued to patrol all night long. During the riots four pawnshops were pillaged and a lorry laden with beer looted. Three houses were burned to the ground. ... Thirty-one persons who were injured were treated at the hospitals. The police used cars mounted with machine-guns a.nd equipped with birdcage tops to protect the crews from showers of stones.