RIOTS IN IRELAND.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12014, 15 August 1907, Page 3

RIOTS IN IRELAND.

London* August 1.3. Further details from Belfast state ;hat during the recent riot* for hours the soldiers and constables were subjected to bombard liient by paving stones arid otbeT missiles by 2000 to 3000 frenzied people. Women car : r,ied nprons.full of stones and other missiles to upper windows and joined in the fray. . t Tho troops when pursuing the rioters used the butt-ends of their rifles, while from the houses men hurled stones and showers came baok, thrown by the troops. ■ Mobs of maddened men and women were iU9hing in all directions cursing the military. Captain Welsh, riiflitary magistrate, called upon the crowd to disperse, but stones nod groans gave the only response. Eventually the order was given for the troops to Ore. The Times and the Telegraph agree that the soldiery themselves, many of whom were wounded, bebecame infuriated, and charged down *,he streets with fixed bayonets, yelling. No sooner had the cavalry cleared a thoroughfare than the mobs returned or surged up and down the aide streets, where the tactics were repeated. When 3000 maddened people were in posssesion of the Falls Road, the soldiers and mob were fighting hand to hand, and the troops were driven The position of the Belfast srikers' is strengthening inasmuch as they share the strike benefits of the general federation of the Trades Unions, consisting of regular weekly payments to each striker independently of any money voted by individual trade unions within the federation.

A third' death from wounds has occurred ai Belfast due to the riots. Many houses have been completely wrecked, and several streets previously paved with stones are entirely torn up. Received August 14, 10.9 p.m. One of the Royal Engineers searchlight companies and apparatus has hurried to Belfast. When the troops returned to barracks on Monday night they had been under intermittent onslaught for sevan hours. The Rifle Brigade and the Sussex regiment B«3re fh'e' brunt. ... , i The troops separated the Nationalist and Protectionist quarters. The Protestants loudly cheered the troops but the women rioters loosen ed stones for houis and participated in the stone throwing.

Everything is quiet now.

.Received August [U, 10.13 p.m. in the' House of Commons Mr Bl*rell, answering questions, mentioned the willingness of the Trade Unionists in Belfast to arbitrate. He said he was hopeful of an early and satisfactory result. The Board of Trade has placed two representatives at the disposal of the two parties. Questioned regarding Mr Grayson's speech, Mr Birrell remarked that this was not the time to pay much attention to wild language to which ho importance was attached by any in'an 1 . (Belfast cheers). . He added that the tielfadt people, with all their faults, were unlikely to take any guidance from Mr Grayson. (General cheers. )

| Received August 14, 10.9 p.m.

|Londoo, August 14. The Lord Mayor of Belfast received a large deputation of leading Catholics from the Falls Road district, and decided not to send troops to the disurbed area unles9 rioting was renewed,, the deputation promising to use their best endeavors to prevent a recurrense. Many priests talked to the people, and Mr J. Devlin, member of the House of Commons, and Mr Larkin addressed Meetings, and induced the people to go to their homes,! Received 10; 13 p.m. Mr Baidane read the military re-, ports showing the forbearance and steadiness of the picket of the Berkshire Regiment on Saturday, when threequarters of the mob were women and children, while the men, remaining in the rear, threw paving atones and bottles. The Middlesex Dragoons on Sunday behaved admirably, though they were mercilessly atoned at short range. The mob extinguished the street lamps and placed wire ropes across the Btreets impeding the Cavalry. The picket on Monday was hard pressed. When the order to fire was given seven rounds were fired. His information was to the effeot that the participators in the attacks were not strikers but a mob. The military reports showed that the riots were mainly in the Nationalists quarter, and in the Fall Road.