Irish free State
REVOLVERS IN ACTION. FIERCE STREET FIGHTING. BATON CHARGES BY POLICE. united Press Assn.—Elcc. Tel. Copyright. (Received Sept. 17, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 16. The Daily Mail’s Belfast correspondent says that revolvers were freely used in fierce street fighting between rival political factions. Two persons were sent to hospital with serious bullet wounds, and twenty were injured by stones. The police detachments constantly made baton charges but as fast as they dispersed the crowds fighting broke out at other points. Scores of windows were smashed and traffic brought to a standstill. A grocery store was looted. Rioters used parked motor cars as entrenchments. ANOTHER MENACE. IRISH CITIZEN ARMY REVIVED. ITS AIMS DEFINED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Sept. 17, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, Sept.. 16. The Sunday Times’ Dublin correspondent says that a new menace is developing in plans to re-establish the Irish citizen army which, affiliated with Labour, fought against the British in 1916, the Leader, Mr James Connolly, being wounded and subsequently executed. The army was formed In 1913 to assist in the formation of a workers’ republic. The present aims are to re-establish order, combat Fascism, and secure a Socialist Republic. The rules permit the use of arms to realise the goal, r
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19363, 17 September 1934, Page 7
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