FIERCE RIOTS.
BOYNE ANNIVERSARY.
ALL NIGHT FIGHT. ;‘ress Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyrlgu LONDON, Sunday. A hundred and fifty people were injured, including two policemen, and fifty Were arrested as a result of fierce riots in the Shettleson district of Glasgow.
Sinn Feiners, shouting, “Tear down their banners!” attacked 40,000 Orangemen during a procession in celebration of the Battle of the Boyne anniversary. The Orangemen replied by a bombardment of beer bottles and brickbats.'
Hundreds of partisans belaboured each other with beribboned shillelaghs, The bandsmen used their instruments, and women fought savagely. A large force of mounted and foot police eventually dispersed the combatants, and the hospitals received the injured.
The procession was carried on under an exchange of missiles, which occurred all along the route. The Orangemen subsequently visited a Sinn Fein colony and bojubardetl' the windows of houses where Sinn Fein Hags were flying. Women screamed vituperations while the streets were filled with free fights. A mob boarded the trams and hurled stones from the top decks, hundreds of windows being broken.
The police repeatedly charged with their batons, but the fight continued through the night.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 July 1925, Page 5
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