BELFAST RIOTS
BUILDINGS SET ON FIRE MAN SHOT BY SNIPER. Press Association Electric Telearaph—Corpright BELFAST, Monday. Edward Scarlett was shot dead during a revival of fighting in Newtonards Road. Apparently he was the victim of a sniper concealed in a gateway. Several buildings were set on fire at Clones, on the Free State border. The house of William Meighan, a member of the British Legion, was attacked and windows smashed.
At Limerick a crowd, in the course of an anti-Protestant demonstration, stoned six shops and two clergymen’s houses, and smashed the windows of a church, a Masonic hall and the Young Men’s Christian Association’s building before police dispersed them. Catholic priests condemned the outrage.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 July 1935, Page 5
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