VIOLENCE IN BELFAST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 194, 16 July 1935, Page 7

VIOLENCE IN BELFAST.

DESTRUCTIVE RIOT. LONDON, July 14. The fire-raisers’ method in the Belfast riots was to wrench gas brackets from the walls and ignite the resultant jets. Two men, Jordan and Little, were shot last night when the mobs were utterly beyond control. They had taken a wreath to the house of Withers, a victim of Friday’s shooting, and were returning with a band when they were killed instantly by a fusillade from rioters who were engaged in an orgy of window-breaking as police in cagedtenders charged down on them. Meantime bombs were exploded in York Street. The police declared that firing on the rioters would have stopped them, but this involved the danger of wounding women and children, who refused to keep off the streets in their desire to “see the fun.” Thomas McDowell, who whs shot in the stomach on July 12, has died of his injuries. The wounded, of whom half are gunshot victims, number 140, 73 of whom were' sent to hospital. Twelve houses were set on fire and 38 wrecked. The News-Chronicle’s Blefast correspondent says that all was quiet after the 10 o’clock curfew, which hitherto had been the signal for renewed outbursts of rioting. ANGRY CROWDS. THE RIOTS CONTINUE. Received July 16, 12.35 p.m. BELFAST, July 15. The lull in the disturbances was short-lived. Troops with fixed bayonets had. escorted without untoward incident the funerals of Margaret Broderick and Edmund Withers to the cemeteries, but immediately night fell the mob set fire to a house at Millfield, in the Catholic section adjoining the Protestant stronghold. A fusillade of stones and bottles met the police, who were under revolver fire from the rooftops. The constables scattered the mob, who attempted to burn other dwellings. When James Andrew, aged 17, was passing down Boyd Street, in the Loyalist quarter, which is decorated with patriotic emblems, he was seriously wounded by a revolver bullet in the stomach.