BELFAST RIOTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 July 1935, Page 5

BELFAST RIOTS

STREETS PATROLLED BY MILITARY AND POLICE. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Saturday, 10.0 a.m.) BELFAST, Friday. There have been no further daytime disturbances in Belfast. Barricades have been erected to check further possible outbreaks. Soldiers with bay r onets and constables with revolvers patrol the streets. Thousands of 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 residents of sectarian districts, who received threatening notices, have moved to more congenial surroundings, and in some cases exchanges of dwellings have been arranged between Catholics and Orangemen. Lord Craigavon interviewed Mr Stanley' Baldwin at Downing St-eret. A CONFERENCE SUGGESTED. (Received Saturday, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. In the House of Commons, Sir John Simon, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said he was not sure whether the Rt. Hon. George Lansburys’s (Labour) suggestion that the time was opportune for a conference of representatives of the churches and the Prime Minister or Home Secretary regarding sectarian disturbances in Belfast.

Mr. J. Maxton (Labour) suggested that troops should be restrained from firing on rioters. Captain Dixon declared that the troops did not fire at all and the police did not fire to kill.