RIOTING AT LIVERPOOL.
FIFTEEN PEOPLE INJURED.
DISTURBANCES ALL NIGHT.
ANTI-ROMAN CATHOLIC MOBS. By Telegraph—Press Association—C'opyricht, (Received July '2B, 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, July >2B. Fifteen persons were injured, including a police sergeant and two constables, in anti-Roman Catholic liots at Evcrton, the Orangemen's district of Liverpool. An unfounded rumour was spread at midnight on Saturday to tlio effect that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Dr. R. Downey, was visiting the district to consecrate a. new presbytery. Disturbances continued throughout the night and resulted in six people being sent to hospital. Insulting references to the archbishop were chalked on a wall of the presbytery. A woman came out of the building to wash these off the wall and was mobbed. Windows were broken and railings were torn out. Free fighting led to the police making baton charges. They were met with volleys of stones.
Strong forces of police guarded (he Roman Catholic churches yesterday.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20628, 29 July 1930, Page 9
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