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Show CATHOLIC IRELAND THROWN INTO STATE t GREATEST EXCITEMENT I ! Conflict Between, British Army and Irish Volunteers Stirs People to High Pitch Crowds, Singing Patriotic Songs and Seeking Vengeance on King's Own Scottish Borderers March Through the Streets of Dublin Throughout Entire Night. POLICE UNABLE TO DISPERSE MOB I Nationalists Take Serious View of Situation and Government Co-operation Will Be Demanded Daylight Landing of Arms by Volunteers More Daring Than Any Attempted At-tempted by Ulster Union Premier Asquith Rushes Back to London and Begins Duty at War Office. I . Dublin, Ireland, July 27 The city o! Dublin and the greater part ot Catholic Ireland was today In a stat-of stat-of the greatest excitement over yesterday's yes-terday's conflict between 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, 40 of whom were In hospitals today in a serious condition Day had dawned before the police succeeded in dispersing the crowds marching through the streets singing patriotic songs and looking for sol die is of the second battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers on whom to inflict vengeance for the fatal events of yesterday when the Eorderers were ordered out to pre vent the landing of arms and ammunition ammu-nition for the Irish Nationalist volunteers. volun-teers. The crowd, finding that the soldiers htid been ordered to remain In barracks, bar-racks, attacked 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 cou-ple of shots, at which bugles were sounded, the police came on the scene and the crowd was dispersed. Ihe Nationalist leaders take the most serious view of the affair aud will demand co-operation from the I government. Daring Landing of Arms. The landing of arm yesterday for I the Nationalists was carried out in a ! more daring manner than similar ' feats achieved by the Ulster unionist j volunteers, as it was effected in day-. day-. light The yacht from which the arras and i ammunition were brought ashore already al-ready had landed 2500 rifles and 125.-I 125.-I 000 rounds of ammunition at isolated I points? along the coast and those bad been successfully distributed by motor mo-tor cars among the Nationalist volun-teors, volun-teors, Yesterday's attempt was undertaken un-dertaken to show that the Notionalists Notional-ists could do what the Ulster Unionists Union-ists had done I At Howth, 2500 rifles and 1BO.00O I rounds of ammunition were landed I under the eyeB of the police, the tele graph wires having been cut to pre-. pre-. i, t communication with Dublin. Automobiles Au-tomobiles carried off l&'u of the rifles and all the ammunition, and a body of Nationalist volunteers, then started for Dublin with 1000 rifles but no ! ammunition. The police sent to Intercept Inter-cept the volunteers scored the gun ' runners and everything seemed to be goiriK smoothly until the battalion of Scottish Borderers arrived and demanded de-manded that the arms be surrendered. surren-dered. Soldlor Charge Volunteers. Tho Nationalist volunteorB refused to give up the rlflwa. and tho soldlero charged with fixed bayonets, wounding wound-ing i number of the volunteers. While the leaders of the volunteers and the reinient3l officers were parleying, the rank and file of the volunteers scattered and got away with the rifles. The news quickly reached Dublin and a mob gathered to meet the soldiers sol-diers on their return Volleys of stones were thrown and 20 of the soldiers were ordered to fire The Nationalist volunteers look no part in the- street fighting The lord mayor of Dublin today demanded de-manded in the Interests of the peace of the city that the battalion of the Scottish Borderers be removed Movements Move-ments In the barracks indicated that preparations were being made to send the regiment elsewhere. The gate3 of the barracks were guarded by a strong force of police Premier Asquith Rushes Home London, July 27 -Premier Asquith, who heard of the fighting iu Dublin,! proceeded to London from his country coun-try home by motor car and arrived here early this morning. As the premier pre-mier Is also secretary for war, he immediately im-mediately took charge of affairs at the war office Information as to the ' shocking occurrence oc-currence in Dublin yesterday, as John E Redmond, the Irish Nation a list leader put it. was demanded immediately im-mediately after the opening of the session of ihe House of Commons todav Mr Redmond was so dissar-isfled dissar-isfled with the meager information given him that he moved the adjournment adjourn-ment of the house in order to debate the matter. Police Commissioner. Augustine Birrell, chief secretary of Ireland, threw the blame for yesterdays yester-days conflict between the troops and the public on the assistant police commissioner, com-missioner, who, he said, had requisitioned requisi-tioned the military entirely on his own responsibility. The official consequently con-sequently had been suspended while an inquiry was made The Nationalist mb shouted "He ought to be banged." The matter will be debated In the bouse tonight MINE IS OPEN. Salmon, Idaho. July 26. John Accord Ac-cord Is In town from GJbbunsvllle. , He states that the Twin Brothers mine at that place is about to open up with a large force of men Mr Zortman. the owner, has been working on this property prop-erty for several yean and is said to have Interested outside capital In the enterprise. The mill is being put in shape to start running. Ore values are ttald to run from 7o to $Sn per ton In KOld. |
