THE BELFAS,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2158, 14 August 1907, Page 2

THE BELFAS,

RIOTERS ALL NATIO. United Press Association—Coi,.__ |I LONDON, August IHHHI Tflio Daily Telegraph’s Belfast cdW rcspondeivt reports that infantry rusties were frequently resisted. To save themselves, some of the crowd held women before them, the latter shrieking, “Jesu Mary, you wont hurt a woman 1” During the trouble in Belfast several women were accidentally ed by bayonets. The rioting was confined to the Nationalist section of the or *Alr. Grayson, a member of*-the House of Commons, said tho soldiers were weary of idleness, and would ike to spill a little blood. If the people were without shrapnel they had brokon bottles to throw,

RENEWED RIOTS,

CITY’S HOSPITALS FULL

' Received August 13, 10.4 P- m - LONDON, August 13. There is renewed riots at Belra* ■ worse than on Sunday. The Culling free Police barracks were wrecked. A number of police were stoned badly and injured. The Riot Act was read The military who throughout showed 'ieat self-restraint and patience we - e impelled to charge forty times. They I dred twice on the mob, killing a man md a woman. Stones and bottivs .vero thrown by the rioters and the baton and bayonet charges and the bullets of the troop wounded him I lreds, some seriously. The hospitals I ire full. Many officers and soldisrs I vero maimed.

MILITARY COMPELLED TO FIRE. MANY CASUALTIES. Received August 13, 0.34 a.m, LONDON, August 12. Matters were so desperate at Belast that Captain Welsh, military Magistrate of Belfast ordered the forenost infantry line to present arms. Vs the rifles were raised to the showier the entire mob bore down upon he troops. The order to fire was lien given." The soldiers fired low iown. Several rioters fell dead or vounded, including a boy. Awful hrieks and groans followed the volley. The rioters fled twice. A brief reicwal of the action led to a second -olley, as the troops were nearly overvhelmed. Larkin, a labor leader, and everal priests throughout vainly ap>ealed to the rioters to desist. Fm■lly the riot subsided. At midnight •he district was in darkness, the ’amps being extinguished.