BELFAST UNREST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 195, 17 July 1935, Page 7

BELFAST UNREST.

RIOTING STILL PREVAILS. ARMOURED CARS USED. Received July 17, 11.40 a.m. BELFAST, July 16. A shot from a hidden gunman wounded a mail in the leg and halted hundreds attending the funeral of the Orangeman, William Little, who was killed in the week-end rioting. Those lining the streets attempted to rush the building from whence came the shot, but flinched before tlio fixed bayonets of tlio Border Regiment. Armoured cars trained guns on the house and the police formed a lane through which the occupants of the building, including several whose heads were broken during the disturbance, were escorted to cars and driven off amid jeers. The building was locked and the roof vainly searched. Rioters later ignited premises in Academy Street, occupied by Catholics, and attempted to prevent the brigade approaching. A police armoured car eventually ga.ve the firemen access, but meanwhile the flames had spread to an adjoining building. POLICE IN CONTROL. CURFEW ENFORCED. (Times Cables.) Received July 17, 1.10 p.m." LONDON, July 17. The Times’s Belfast correspondent points out that strict control lias reduced the opportunities for violence in the city. Women yesterday tore up the cobblestones of a whole street for use as missiles, but replaced them on the forcible orders of a police officer. Eire gangs who, in a leisurely manner, had piled up furniture in tlio middle rooms of houses in order to give the blazo a good start cannot repeat this programme now. The curfew is being enforced and the entire neighbourhood of the seat of the trouble is guarded.