TEE BELFAST STRIKE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13983, 16 August 1907, Page 5

TEE BELFAST STRIKE

PRIESTS ASSUME POLICE DUTIES,

PROSPECTIVE SETTLEMENT. OF

THE TROUBLE,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, August 14.

The rioters' attacks on the police in Falls road were identical with those upon the alleged "blackleg miters" and the so-called "blackleg military and constabulary" protecting them. The Orangemen and Unionists of Belfast have appealed to sympathisers'to avoid saying anything likely to load to disorder, The priests now in Belfast atsumod police duties, and made themselves, in conjunction with the magistrates, responsible fuv tfte peace of the city. (Received August 15, at 9.54 p.m.) A conference which is being held at Belfast to arrange a. settlement of the strike troubles is progressing satisfactorily. J'-aI'LANATION BY MR GRAYSON. LONDON, Angnl 15. (Received August 15, at J 1.28 p.m.) Mr Grayson, M.P., in a letter to The Times, says that his fijwech at Huddevsiiekl was inisrepoited. Referring to the terrible incidents nt Belfast, lie remarked that the fight was most unequal, since one side had a military training, ball cartridges, Gatlings, and bayonets, while the other had only broken bottles. His statement was n very different thing fronr that which had b:cil attributed to him. Mr Grayson (Socialist M.P.) was reported to have said that Ihe «/>Ulio'ro wore weary from idleness, and would liko to epili a little blood if the peoplo were without shrapnel und Imd broken bottles to throw.