ORANGE AND GREEN.
GLASGOW DONTNTBROOK
BOYNE ANNIVERSARY.
WILD SCENES IN STREETS
(Sydney Sun Cable.) LONDON, July 12
One hundred and fifty people were injured, including two policemen, and fifty were, arrested as the result of fTerce riols in the Shettleson district of Glasgow,
Sinn Feiners. shouting "Tear down their banners," attacked 'tO.ooo Orangemen m procession in celebration of the Boyne battle anniversary. The Orangemen replied with a bombardment of beer bottles and brickbats, and hundreds of partisans belaboured each other with bcribboncd shillalahs, while bandsmen used their instruments. Women also fought savagely. A large force of mounted and fool constables dispersed the combatants and conducted the injured to hospital. After that the procession carried on an exchange of missiles all along the route.
Orangemen visited the Sinn Fein colony and bombarded the windows of houses on which the Sinn eFin flag was, flying, the women screaming vituperations, while the streets were filled with free fights. The mob bombarded the trams and hurled stones from the top decks. Hundreds of windows were broken. The police repeatedly charged with their batons.
The light continued all night long at Gurngad, where a man was wounded by a revolver shot.
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16545, 14 July 1925, Page 5
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