FURTHER RIOTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22165, 19 July 1935, Page 11

FURTHER RIOTS

SCENES IN BELFAST SIX PEOPLE KILLED FUNERAL DISTURBANCE By Telegraph—Press Association—Cepyriplht BELFAST. Jtly IT In spite of military and police precautions, trouble again broke out during the funeral of Thomas McDowell, a victim of the week-end rioting in Belfast. Thousands of people attended the funeral.

Shots from a side street threw the crowd into confusion. Loyalists attacked Nationalists, who promptly retaliated, and the procession, notwithstanding the efforts of the police, became a series of melees all the way to the cemetery. The disturbance culminated in a fight with stones, and the constables were compelled to fire over the heads of the crowd until the riot was quelled. This action also enabled the minister to complete the burial service. Further disturbance marked the return journey, in which thousands of youths, headed by a man with a wounded arm. maintained a rough military formation until shots were fired transforming them into a rabble, which eventually was dispersed. Six people were killed. One man succumbed in the street to a bullet wound in the head.

The fire brigades suppressed further outbreaks of incendiarism.

Finallv the troops were reinforced ■with fresh contingents, who were compelled to fire machine-guns over the heads of the crowd. This quelled the, disturbances. i; ''