THE CITY OF RIOTS

New Zealand Tablet, 19 January 1922, Page 25

THE CITY OF RIOTS

- r Thorp was rioting in Belfast on Sunday night, when St -Matthews Church and hall and the Convent of the Cross and Passion were fiercely attacked (says the London Oathohc I ivies for November 26). It continued on Monday and on luesday Pandemonium reigned there on the lastnamed day. By eight o’clock .in the evening ten people had been killed and over forty wounded, bringing up the casualumindec] 1 M ' ay antl lliesda y to thirteen killed and fifty • A - pointed question (says "the Manchester Guardian is suggested by the state of Belfast at- this moment. Belfast ls a city with a large Grange majority, Dublin a city "ith a large-Catholic :majority. Would any man in his senses who as merely considering his comfort, his freedom his lights, and ms safety prefer to be a Catholic in Belfast rather than a Protestant in .Dublin? . With what sort of face can Orange Belfast, with her history of incessant tumidt, assert that she cannot consider any association of the Dublin ’l>Zli 0 cL tho Intolel ' ant and factious temper