THE BELFAST RIOTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19631, 18 July 1935, Page 7

THE BELFAST RIOTS.

TROUBLE AT A FUNERAL.

SHOTS FIRED BY POLICE.

A FIGHT WITH STONES

United Tress Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received July 18, 1.0 pan.)

BELFAST, July 17

Despite ample military and police precautions trouble broke out during the funeral of Mr Thomas McDowell, a,victim of Ihe week-end rioting,-which was attended by thousands Shots, from a side street threw the crowd into contusion, and Loyalists attacked the Nationalists, who. promptly retaliated. :

The procession despite tho police efforts, became a series of melees all the way to the cemetery, culminating in a light with stones, compelling constables lo fire over the heads of the crowd until Hie riot was quelled, enabling a minister lo complete the burial service. Further' disturbances marked the return journey, upon which thousands of youths, headed by a leader with a wounded arm, maintained rough military. formation until shots were fired, transforming them Into a rabble, which was eventually dispersed.

DEATH-ROLL REACHES SIX.

MAN 'SUCCUMBS IN STREET.

United Press Assn. --Elec, Tel. Copyright. (Received July 18, 1 p.m.), / BELFAST, July 17. The death-roll in connection with the riots has reached six. A man succumbed in the street from a bullet wound in the head. The lire brigade suppressed further outbreaks of incendiarism. The 'troops have been reinforced by fresh contingents, who were compelled to fire machine-guns over the heads of the crowds to quell the disturbances.