Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-27
Soldiers voiIeV
 Into Dublin Mob
KILLS FOUR AND PUTS OVER 60
 INTO HOSPITAL WOUNDED.
SEVEN MORE MAY DIE
Kings Own Scottish Horderers Replied with Shots When Nationalist Sym pathizers Threw Bottles and Stones --1o,ooo Rifles Landed-soIdiers Were Out to Capture the Guns.

Dublin, July 26.-Three men and one woman are dead and more than sixty persons are in the hospital wounded as >tne result of battalion of the Kings OMn WI Scottlsh Borderers firing into a Hloo lnAthe streets of Dublin this af ternoon. Seven of the wounded are expected to succumb to their injuries Tne wounded include three women and a boy of ten.
 The affray was the result of a gun running exploit of the Nationalist vol unteers, who were being aided by A youths '-iN
 Rifles Brought on Private Yacht.
 A consignment, of rifles said to number 10000. was landed at noon to- day at Howth. nine miles from Dub m. The vessel on which the arms. were brought to Howth was a pri- vate yacht. The Nationalist yolun- teers cut the telegraph wires and stop pea trnVN on the Dublin roads and according to reports, sent away most or the rifles. together with 10000 rounds Of ammunition in motor cars
 A battalion of the Kings Own Scot tish Borderers was ordered to capture the arms this afternoon when the au- thortties heard the volunteers were bringing them into the city Jeered Troops, cheered Redmond. The soldiers encountered a detach- inent or volunteers at Clonmell bridge and an outbreak resulted. There was no shooting. however. A great crowd soon collected and followed the troops. Jeering them and cheering for John i Redmond, the Nationalist leader. and home rule. Finally the mob began throwing bottles and stones, and sev- erai of the soldiers were injured FusilIade from the Troops. | The battalion then replied to the attack or the mob with a scattered 1us1Ila6@r In an instant the street was covered with wounded, while terrified | men, women and children ran in all directions.
 l St. Juras hospital is situated only 200 yards from the scene of the af- | fray and the wounded were quickly 1 taken there. Four of them died with | in two hours.
 Seized 100 Rifles. ]
 The soldiers and police seized a. hun | dred rifles from the volunteers. Excited crowds filled the streets of Dublin tonight, some of the men car l rying rifles The. Borderers are con l pie from attacking them A street car In which a soldier was riding was | wrecked, but the soldier escaped the mob. Further rioting is feared.
 Prominent Nationalist Wounded.
 Among those seriously wounded ir the affray is M. J. Judge a prominent officer of the Nationalist volunteers
 The yacht from which the arms were l landed was sailing vessel the name 1 of which had been painted over.
 A woman. or a man in woman's clothing, some persons say, command ed the yacht.
 | Drove of Police and Coast Guard.
 A thousand volunteers marched
 openly from Dublin to sreceive the arms. They said. however, that they
 were merely making a practice march
 The local police and the coast guard tried to prevent the landing of tn,
 arms. but were driven off When tn,
 Dublin authorities learned of the land.
 ing they sent sixty police to seiz, the arms. These police later were re
 fnforced by 200 others under the com mand of an assistant commissioner
 The police were drawn up on botl } sides of the road along which the vol
 unteers were returning with the mil itary in the center of the road
 Tried to Disarm the Volunteers.
 When the volunteers saw the mobi liZation most of them got away wit , their arms, Scattering through the fields. The police and soldiers trie
 to disarm the remainder
 In the resulting affray several re
 volver shots were fired by volunteers
 and a corporal and a private wer
 wounded, the volunteers also used thei i rifles as clubs
 The soldiers fired and used thei . bayonets freely, inf1icting many cuts
 Then they had a running fight wit the volunteers and the rapidly grow : ing mob through the streets to thei barracks
 A rdmber of policemen have bee
 suspended for refusing to try to dis arm the volunteers.