LULL AT BELFAST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 169, 22 July 1935, Page 7

LULL AT BELFAST

_ I STREETS PATROLLED CITIZENS MOVE TO SAFETY | i. By Telegraph-j-Presa Association—Copyright) i BELFAST, July’ 19. There have ben no further daytime disturbances in Belfast. Barricades have been erected to check further possible outbreaks, and soldiers with bayonets and constables with revolvers patrol the streets. A thousand people, despite a downpour, witnessed the funeral of an Orange victim, William Osborne, who was shot through the eyes in the recent riots. The procession made a detour round the disturbed areas. Many resident sof sectarian districts who received threatening notices have moved to m ;re congenial surroundings. In some eases exchanges of dwellings have been arranged between Catholics and Orangemen. The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Lord “raigavon, int«‘i viewed ihe British Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, at Downing Street. IS TIME OPPORTUNE? CONFERENCE PROPOSAL. LONDON. July 19. Speaking in the House of Commons. • the Home Secretary (Sir John Simon) said he was not sure whether the suggestions of Mr. George Lansbury, Leader of the Opposition, were opportune for a conference of representatives of Churches and the Prime Minister or the Home Secretary regarding the secretarial! disturbances in Ulster. Mr J. Maxton (Lab.) suggested that troops should be restrained from firing on rioters;. Captain H. Dixon (Cod-) declared that the troops did not fire at all and the police did not fire to kill. z SHOTS HEARD AGAIN NINTH DEATH OCCURS. Received July 21, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, July 21. Shots again rang out at Belfast during the funeral of James Andrews, a victim of the rioting. Thousands were watching the cortege, when the sound ! of gun fire caused a stampede to the I side streets in seeking the gunman. The police were forced to draw their batons to prevent the cordon being broken. The crowd later roughly handled a suspect. The procession was returning from the funeral waving Union Jacks, and crowds of women and girls were singing, when a man fired live shots from a small automatic, wounding John O’Hara. The crowd again attempted to capture the assailant, but the police again intervened. A magistrate sentenced Henry Connor. of Belfast, to three months’ imprisonment for intimidating a woman, to whom he handed a paper on which was written “Clear out or be burned out.” The ninth death has occurred, that of George McKay, who was wounded in the head.