RIOTS IN DUBLIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21377, 29 December 1932, Page 10

RIOTS IN DUBLIN

ARMISTICE DAY OUTBREAK

POPPY WEARERS ATTACKED REPUBLICANS AND POLICE [from our own correspondent] LONDON, Nov. 17 Serious disturbances occurred in Dublinon Armistice night. One man was . killed and many were injured in anti-British disorders and several' thousand young men of the Irish Republican Army clashed with the police. The men snatched hundreds of Flanders poppies from the breasts of their wearers and broke shop windows in which poppies were displayed. All the available police were called out to disperse them, writes the Dublin correspondent of tho Daily Telegraph. There were repeated baton chaiges, in which many people were injured, some being trampled on, Many of the young men carried knuckle-dusters and other weapons with - which they fought the police in hand-to-hand duels.

A motor-car in which a detective was riding was held up in O'Connell Street by young men, who threw stones through the glass of the car and seriously injured the occupants. Police were hurried to the and after some difficulty thoy succeeded in getting the car away, badly damaged. A girl was struck in the face by a young man and a poppy was snatched from her coat. Youths were shouting,. "No poppies will be "worn in Dublin to-night." All traffic in the city was held up.

A London journalist was roughly handled by a mob, who to snatch a poppy which he was wearing. Several young men asked him what was his nationality, and when he replied "English" ho was rather severely handled and his poppy was snatched from his breast. Several Republicans were arrested. Many attempts were made by the crowd to rescue them from the police. The Irish Republican Army men paraded the principal streets- of the city in military formation, wearing badges inscribed, "Boycott British Goods," and singing "The Soldier's Song" (the Free State Republican Anthem), and shouted, "Up, the Republic!" and "We'll crown De Valera King of Ireland." After marching around St. Stephen's Green and Merrion Square they tried to march past Trinity College, at the bottom of Graf-' ton Street, A large force of police made a cordon across tiie roadway. _ When the men refused to disperse the police charged. In the poorer quarters of the city stones were thrown at motor-car 3, and some of the windows of Trinity College, the Protestant University, were broken by stones. As the night advanced baton charges became more frequent, and at a lato hour the centre of the city was surrounded by police. By midnight the police had .the situation under control, although isolated scuffles were still being reported. Tho casualty Avards of the hospitals were filled.