UNHAPPY IRELAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13499, 14 August 1907, Page 5

UNHAPPY IRELAND.

IUOTEKS FIRED ON.

SEVERAL KILLED.

United Press Association. — By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.

LONDON. August 13. Rioting was resumed at Belfast in a more serious manner than on Sunday. Tho Culling Tree polico barracks were wrecked, and a number of polico stoned and badly injured. The Riot Act was read. Tho military, who throughout showed great selfrestraint and patience, were compelled to charge forty times. They fired twice on the mob, killing a man and a woman. Stones and bottles were thrown by tho rioters, and the baton and bayonet charges and bullets of the troop wounded hundreds, some seriously. v The hospitals are full. Many officers and soldiers were maimed. Matters became so desperate, at .Belfast that Captain Welsh, Military Magistrate at Belfast, ordered the foremost infantry line to present arms. As their rifles were raised to their shoulders, the entire mob bore down upon the troops. The order to "Fire" was then given. The soldiers fired low down, and several rioters fell dead or wounded, including a boy. Awful shrieks and groans followed the volley. The rioters fled. Twice there was a brief renewal of the action, which led to a second volley, as the troops were nearly overwhelmed. Mr Larkin, a Labour leader, and several priests throughout vainly appealea to the rioters to desist. Finally the riot subsided at midnight, The district was, in darkness, lamps being extinguished.