Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-27 | Page 1 | Rioting Marks Irish Election; Troops Active

RIOTING MARKS IRISH ELECTION; TRDOPSACTIVE One Youth Seriously Injured In-jured When Crowds At-tack At-tack Two Candidates in Dublin Street Fight DUBLIN. Aug. 17 (By A. P. A lively outbreak of rifle and machine ma-chine gun fir occurred In Dublla early today. Tha ehootlng waa not explained. Balloting In th Pall electlona proceeded with national troopa patrolling tha etreeta. A motorcar carrying Jamaa Crowley Crow-ley and tha minister of fisheries, Plnlan Lynch, both ot whom ara candidates of tha government party for Kerry, waa attacked by a crowd while paaalng through Unite yesterday. yes-terday. Shot were tired and ona young awn was seriously Injured. PRISON ATTACK REP0RTEDv Th (hooting here lasted about twenty mlnutes, ceasing shortly after 1:1 a. m, when tha city resumed re-sumed Ita normal quiet. Ther were reports that attack had been made on Mount Joy prison and various va-rious post occupied by th national troop, but ' tha authorities professed pro-fessed to have no knowledge ot such attacks. Tha polling waa brisk and In all parts ot Dublin city and county, both men and women turning out In largo numbers to vote. . . Jamea Larktn. tha labor leader, addressing a meeting at 14berty hall laaa nig I) t, denounced the -action ofhe authorities In making election, day a public holiday, declaring de-claring thia would rob the work' era ot 46,000 pounde in wage. H urged the men to, march to' their place of employment this morning morn-ing aad demand that opera! Ions go on aa. uaual. Ther wa no evidence evi-dence of hia advice havng been followed In. any Inatance. OVER MILLION ELIGIBLE. Voting In tha Dall election he. pan throughout th. Irish Free Plat at o'clock today wHh an electorate of mora than I,?M.tot eligible t. eaat th ballot. Nearly (ie.00 of thla number are near Vetera, most of them being young people of both aexee. The day I a public holiday and thla makee poealbie tha cloalng of th. nolle at T o'clock. In Dublin there are labor candidate candi-date for both the regular and Ijar-kin Ijar-kin wlnga. Tba Dublin aha riff do aot expect to be able to announce any reeult before Tueaday night. It la likely to be Wednesday nlgbt before the Dublin return ar tabulated, tabu-lated, and tha delay In the ecat-tered ecat-tered country constituencies W expected ex-pected to be oven greater. Supportera of the government party have dally lncreaeed In confidence con-fidence and It la believed that that group will conetltute th largest to Loo in the new houe.