BEYOND CONTROL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 5

BEYOND CONTROL

RIOTERS IN BELFAST TWO DEAD, HO WOUNDED HOUSES SET ON FIRE (Elec. Till. Copyright—United Press Assn.) LONDON, July 14. The fire raisers’ method during the Belfast rioting was to wrench gas brackets from ehe Walls and ignite the resulting .jets. Two men, Jordan and Little, were diol last night, when the mobs wore utterly beyond control. They had taken a wreath to the house of Withers, the victim of Friday’s shooting, and were returning with u band when they were killed instantly by a fusillade from rioters who were engaged in an orgy of window-breaking as the police in caged tenders charged down in them. Meantime bombs were exploded in York street. The police declared that firing on the rioters would have stopped them, but it involved the danger of-wound-ing women and children, who refused to keep off the streets in their desire to “seo the fun.” Thomas McDowell, who was shot in the stomach on Friday, has succumbed to his injuries. The wounded, of whom half are gun shot victims, number 140, 73 of whom were sent to hospital. Twelve houses were set on fire and 38 wrecked. The News-Chronicle’s Belfast correspondent says that all was quiet after the 10 ‘o’clock curfew, which hitherto has been the signal for renewed outbursts of rioting.