FURTHER SHOOTING

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 July 1935, Page 5

FURTHER SHOOTING

RIOTS AT BELFAST ANOTHER VICTIM DIES. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Sunday. Shots again rang out in Belfast during the funeral of James Andrews, a victim of the rioting. Thousands were watching the cortege when the sound of gunfire caused a stampede to the side streets. In seeking a gunman the police were forced to draw their batons to prevent the cordon from being broken. Tho crowd later roughly handled a suspect.

The procession was returning from the funeral waving Union Jacks, with crowds of women and girls singing, when a man fired five shots from a small automatic, wounding John O’Hara. The crowd again attempted to capture tho 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, ‘ 1 Clear out or be burned out. ’ ’ The ninth death has occurred, that of George McKay, who was wounded in the head on 12th July. A REIGN OF TERROR. (Received Monday, 9.45 a.m.) BELFAST, Sunday. Armed.men forced their way into the house of John Hamill and seriously wounded him. Appeals for peace were heard in all the Protestant and Catholic churches to-day. It is estimated that the damage and loss through last ivcek’s riots amounts to between £40,000 and £50,000. Hundreds of families fled from the ’disturbed areas, and those remaining live in a state of terror, and bolt and bar themselves indoors cqrly in tho evening. The police have begun raids for arms throughout the city, and soldiers, with fixed bayonets, are stationed at many points behind a new type of vire bairier.