Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-28
CITY OF DUBLIN IN FERMENT
Night of Excitement Follows Fight
with Troops.
FOUR KILLED, MANY WOUNDED
Mob Attacked Soldiers who Were
Returning from Attempt TO seize
Arms Landed at HOwth--
Mob Surrounds Barracks.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
! DUBLIN. July 27.-Serious rioting was
begun here tonight. The city is in state
OF intense excitement. The authorities
fear that 1t will be necessary to call on
the military. which will mean much blood
shed.
DUBLIN ireland, July 27-The city Of
Dublin and greater part Of Catholic Ire
land was today in state of the greatest
excitement over yesterdays conflict be-
tween the regular troops of the British
army and the Irish Nationalists which
resulted in the killing Of four persons
and the wounding of many others. forty
of whom were in hospitals today in
serious condition.
Day had dawned before the police sue
ceeded in dispensing the crowds march,
ing through the streets singing patriotic
songs and looking for soldiers of the
Second battalion of the kings own Scot
tish bcrderers on whom to inflict ven
geance for the fatal events of yesterday
when the borderers were ordered out to
prevent the landing or arms and ammuni-
ton for the Irish Nationalists colunteers.
The crowd finding that the soldiers had
been ordered to remain in barracks, at
tocked the royal barracks, where the
borderers are stationed and clamored for
the soldiers to come out Finally the
| mob kicked down a gate of the barracks
and fired a couple Of shots, on which
bugles were sounded, the police came on
! the scene and the crowd was dispersed.
The Nationalist leaders take the most
serious view of the affair and will de-
mand reparation from the government.
The landing or arms yesterday for the
Nationalists was carried out in a more
daring manner than similar feats achieved
! by the Ulster Unionists volunteers as It
was effected in daylight The yacht
from which the arms and ammunition
were brought ashore already had landed
! $500 rifles and 125, 900 rounds OF ammuni-
tion at isolated points along the coast
and these had been successfully dis
tributed by motor cars among the Ma
! tionalists volunteers. Yesterdays at
tempt was undertaken 10 show that the
Naticnalists could do what the Ulster
Unionists had done.
| At Howth. $500 rifles and 10000 rounds
of ammunition we're landed under the
eyes of the police. the telegraph wires
having been cut to prevent communica-
! tion with Dublin. Automobiles carried
ton and body of Nationalists volun-
teers then started for Dublin with 1000
rifles, but no ammunition.
Tho police sent to intercept the volun-
teers cheered the gun runners and every
thing seemed to b going smoothly until
the battalion of Scottish borderers ar
rived and demanded that the arms be sur
rendered,
ioa az ref IN
give up the rifles and the soldiers with
fixed bayonets charged wounding a num-
Der of the volunteers. While the leaders
of tho volunteers and the regimental Of
ficers were parleying the rank and file of
the volunteers scattered and got away
with the rifles.
Mob Attacks Soldiers.
The news quickly reached Dublin and a
mob gathered to meet the soldiers on
their return Nolleys of stones were
thrown and twenty of the soldiers were
ordered to fire. The Nationalists volun-
tcers took 10 part in the street fighting
The soldiers fired and used their bayonts
freely, inflcting many cuts. Then they
had running fight with the volunteers
and the rapidly growing mob through the
streets to their barracks.
number OF policemen have been sus-
pended for refusing to try to disarm the !!
volunteers. After the troops had fired !
into the crowd. the angry populace in
a spirit of revenge attacked individual |
soldiers and beat them brutally. Mem !
bers of the Scottish Borderers, who were |
riding bicycles along the quays, were |
pulled from their machines and beaten !
and bicycles were thrown into the river. 4!
Lord Mayor Protests.
The, lord mayor has Issued a strong |
letter OF protest, declaring the troops |
were ordered out without permission be-
ing asked of the lord mayor and he |
demands that the responsibility shall be
fixed for the calling out Of the soldiers
and for supplying them with ball car
tridges. He adds:
Dublin and Ireland look with confi-
dence to John Redmond and his col
leagues to bring to justice those response
BILE for this shocking outrage. There |
must no longer be one law for a section
of the Ulster people and another law
for the remainder of the Irish people"
The tragedy caused a great sensation.
The nationalists are indignant over the
affair because they say, the troops are
against the nationalists' volunteers and /
never interfered with the orangemen.
Five thousand Ulster volunteers carrying !
arms paraded the Belfast streets today
under the eyes Of General Macready and |
ether officers Of the regular army and /
assed the Dorset regiment which was on |
parade
Government Mt Fault.
LONDON, July H,-The Daily News
calls the affair at Dublin a massacre !
and demands a rigid investigation OF the ,
conduct OF the soldiers, II lays the re-
sponsibility upon the weakness of the /
government, which allowed the organi- I
zatlon Of the Ulster volunteers and could /
not prohibit the nationalists from doing
the same.