SERIOUS RIOTING
Si NX FHIXHRS AXI) ORANGEMEN
150 PEOPLE INJURED
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LONDON. Julv 12
A hundred and lifty people were injured. including two policemen, and fifty were arrested as a result of fierce riot's in the Slietlleson district of Glasgow. Sinn Feiners, shouting, “Teat down their banners!" attacked 40.C00 Orangemen during a processitm in celebration of the Hattie of the lioyne anniversary. The Orangemen replied by a bombardment- of beer bottles and brickbats. Hundreds of partisans belaboured each other with beribboned slnlkdahs. The bands used their instill incuts and women fought savagely. A large force of mounted and foot police eventually dispersed the combatants, and the hospitals received the injured. Tile procession was tarried on under an exchange of missiles, which occurred all along the route. The Orangemen subsequently visited a Sinn Fein colony and bombarded the windows of houses where Sinn Fein flags were flying. Women screamed vituperations while the streets wore filled with free fights. A mob boarded flic t'vMns and hurled stones from the top docks, hundreds of windows being broken. The police repeatedly charged with their batons, but the. light continued-right -through the night.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 14 July 1925, Page 5
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