BELFAST RIOTS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12015, 16 August 1907, Page 3

BELFAST RIOTS.

. • London, August 14. The rioters 5 attacks on the police in the Falls Road at Belfast were identical with those'upon the alleged Blackleg carters aod the so-called blacklegs, the military and constabulary protecting them. Orangemen and Unionists at Bel - fast have appealed to sympathisers to avoid saying anything likely to lead to disorder! The priests at Belfast have assumed police duties and made themselves, with the magistrates, responsible for , peace. Received August 15, 9.45 p.m. ... , , Londoh, August 15. The conference at Belfast to arrange a settlement of the strike troubles is progressing satisfactorily. Received 11.28 p.m. Mr Grayson, in a letter to the "Times," says that his speech at Huddersfield was misreported. Referring to the terrible incidents at Belfast, he remarked that the fight was most unequal since one side had irrilitary training, ball cartridges, gatlings and bayonets,' and the other only broken bottles. His statement was a very different thing to thafc attributed to him.