SHOOTING AT DUBLIN

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 147, 28 July 1914, Page 7

SHOOTING AT DUBLIN

THE KILLED & WOUNDED

NATIONALISTS BAYONETTED.

FIERCE FIGHTING IN STREETS.

REFERENCE IN THE COMMONS.

Intense feeling prevails in Dublin as the result of the shooting of Nationalists by the Scottish Borderers. The men of this regiment have been ordered away to the Curragh camp. A number of constables have been arrested for refusing to charge on the crowd according to orders. The Right Hon. Augustine Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, explains that the soldiers fired on the people without orders. Angry scenes took place in theHouse of Commons when the matter was under discussion. The Assistant Commissioner of Police at Dublin, who sought the assistance of the military forces on his own responsibility, has been suspended'pending an enquiry.

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LONDON, July 27

Dublin Nationalists planned the gunrun%ing three weeks ago, but owing to a hitch it was postponed till 10 o'clock ;on Sunday, A thousand volunteers marched out of Dublin, accompanied by a signalling corps, ambulance, and four food waggons, and reached Howth at noon.. Simultaneously a 50-ton yacht painted white, and without a name, apparently an American, steered by a woman, or more probably a man in .woman's" attire, approached the quay. A company, of volunteers, armed with long oak batons, seized the harbour, and covered the coastguardsmen with revolvers, and within half an hour 2600 rifles had been landed on the quays, each in two pieces. They were hastily put together until a thousand volunteers had secured a rifle apiece. The rest were loaded on motor cars and conveyed to the country, north of Dublin. The ammunition was placed'in the food waggons.

FIX BAYONETS!

A ROADSIDE AFFRAY.

SOLDIERS AND CONSTABLES

WOUNDED

Directly the coastguards regained their freedom they telephoned to Dublin, and 300 police met the volunteers marching back.at Clontarf. The police took up positions on either side of the road, and simultaneously a trainload of Scottish Borderers arrived and w«Te ordered to fix bayonets. They doubled to meet the volunteers, and the latter sought to take another road, hoping to reach Dublin "without interruption, but the police momentarily prevented their escape, and a conflict ensued. The volunteers fired revolvers and slightly wounded two soldiers, while several constables received scalp wounds from butt-ends of rifles.

Twenty constables refused to obey the order to charge, crying, '' We are Irishmen.''

The volunteers meanwhile loudly demanded ammunition, but the waggons had already escaped. Only 20 rifles were captured. The bulk of the volunteers scattered and escaped through the fields.

Twenty volunteers were wounded, including M. J. Judge, a well*known citizen officer of the Nationalist Volunteers, who was seriously wounded with a bayonet in the stomach.

SOLDIERS CHARGE CROWD.

TWENTY MEN TIRE VOLLEY.

FREE USE OF BAYONETS.

As the Borderers reached Dublin from Cloiitarf, a hostile crowd met them on Bachelor's Walk, and made a fierce and determined attack on the soldiers. Several efforts were made to persuade the crowd to desist from stoning, and eventually 20 men were detailed to check the omvard rush by firing a atol- - The soldiers followed this up by charging with fixed bayonets, scattering the crowd.

Eye-witnesses state that a few soldiers rushed up and stabbed men with bayonets.

The troops fired another volley in Ship Street, and wounded three men.

Another hostile crowd met the soldiers at O'Connel bridge, and a vol ley was fired, several being wounded.

ONE HUNDRED WOUNDED.

FURTHER FIRING BY TROOPS,

MOB ATTACK THE BARBACKS,

Two volleys were fired at Metal bridge, and .15 people were shot. Three volleys were fired at the Wellington bridge, and a number were shot. There were .'SO cases of bullet wounds in Jer-voi-3 Street Hospital alone, including a child of 10 years.

Some estimate that a hundred persons were wounded, of whom 30 are in

a, Btiiuus cuuuiuuu. xnt-it; w«iv« uewn four deaths already. Excitement at Dublin increased in the evening. A mob tried to enter the barracks, where the Scottish Borderers were confined, fired revolvers, and hooted other troops.

The crowd wrecked a tram ear in which a soldier was seated, and savagely kicked and beat other isolated soldiers, including two men of the Borderers, who were pulled from their cycles ai*i beaten, and their cycles thrown into the Liffev.

The significance of the Dublin affray is increased by the fact that the Nationalists meet to-day to decide as to their attitude on the Amending Bill, in which the Government desire to in* corporate their newest proposals for a settlement.

Mr'Redmond has hitherto refused to agree to the Amending Bill unless th» Unionists accept it as a settlement.

FEELING INTENSE.

BORDERERS ORDERED AWAY.

THE CRISIS OVERSHADOWED^ (Received July 28, 9.35 a.m.)

Mr Birrell's statement caused a sen* sation in the lobbies, but the European crisis overshadows the Nationalist

one. -;; The feeling in Dublin is intense. . ~* AH soldiers have ;been. confined td - barracks. . - The Scottish Borderers have been or- kdered to the Curragh, and will leave t". 'to-night. ''■•'- -^ The crowd remained, near the soldiers *}, at the time of the firing, believing that * they only carried blank cartridges. fMr Birrell, Secretary for Ireland; .;' speaking at Meldrum, said the conference, though a failure, had been well ~ worth holding. The Government woul<l \ go forward. Proposals' had already >* been made which would enable every *\, one of the nine counties in Ulster te \ vote itself out. He felt'- sure there would be no civil war.] ••?

CONSTABLES ARRESTED.

REFUSAL TO CHARGE MOB.*.

NATIONALISTS BURY ARMS.

The constables who refused to eharge £ at Clontarf have been arrested. »i When the Nationalist Volunteers ; were ordered to disarm, they handed '-1 their rifles to residents living at Dub- J who buried them. r*'> The weapons were removed to tke ~ Nationalists' secret depot to-day.

NATIONALISTS CONFER.

THE AMENDING BILL.

OPPOSITION PROVISIONALLY

WITHDEAWN.

(Received July 28, 10.45 a.m.) T Mr Redmond presided at a meeting' of Nationalists in the House of Com- _'•" inons. It is understood that they have de- <■- cided not to oppose the Amending Bill on the Understanding that the Government will propose drastic changes in- y committee. f^ Mr Redmond will move the adjourn- • ment of. the. House to-night to diseuss \<\ the Dublin incident. - ;

Mr Asquith announced that the "_\ Amending Bill will not be taken tomorrow, as it would be unfair to ask the Nationalists to proceed with the Bill ia view of the deplorable events in Dublin.

MR BIRRELL EXPLAINS.

SOLDIERS FIRE WITHOUT ORDERa

ANGRY INTERJECTIONS IN

COMMONS

Mr Birrell, in reply to Mr Redmond, I said that Mr W.' V. Barrel!, Assistant S Commissioner of Police, requisitioned the f military on his own responsibility. Mr 4 Harrel had been suspended pending an < - enqujry..

Mr Redmond: He ought to.be hanged. \ • ■* Lord Rob'crt Cecil: Ministers ought • <j to be hanged. (Opposition applause.) .J Mr L. S. Amery (Unionist) : They 're • }2

the murderers. - '-*& Mr Birrell added that some of the $5 soldiers became exasperated and fired - "'7, without orders. -' Their officers succeeded in stopping the firing killed and .$2 injured. A number of the soldiers were severely .^

injured. A full enquiry into the conduct of the military is to be held immediately. Mr Devlin asked should there be any differentiation in favour of armed Ulster Volunteers marching through Belfast. Mr Birrell did not reply.