The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 8

Monday, July 14,1969 The Ottawa Journal Violence Flares in Ireland Chichester-Clark was vaca tioning in London Sunday after taking part in an Orangemen's parade Saturday when Utter fighting broke out Sunday night He flew back from London; for the emergency cabinet session. police In many places gave up the sniggle to control the rioters and concentrated on sav ing their own skins from Roman Catholic mobs. A 'police patrol in Londonderry had to fire in the air to get out of a back alley, and a mob in Dungiven bottled several policemen up in a building and threw gasoKne bombs In an ef fort to burn the place down. At least 41 policemen and 14 civilians were injured in fighting Sunday night Police spokesmen described the fighting as the worst they had seen stace the' civil rights campaign against the government erupted into violence last autumn, Injuries for the first time ih-eluded victims of gunfire. Two civilians were hit by stray shots in Londonderry.

The rioting was largely In' Cathottc areas. The" outburst began Saturday after, 100.000 Protestants of the Or- ange Order staged their annual VJ MASKS JAMES DEFEAT July'12 is the anniversary of the final defeat in 1690 of James a H. the last Catholic king of En land, in the Battle of the Boyne in Northern Ireland. i The Ormii Onir whii-fc A takes Its "tame from the Protes- ,4 tant victor King William of Or 'ange, always marks with a drum-beating strength. the day show of Tbe Orangemen are still the powerful political force in "'this semi-autonomous province "which kept its links with Britain 1 when the rest of Ireland got in- dependence in 1921 are bitterly resented by jvsnany Catholics, who despite "some victories in a civil rights campaign early this year, still consider themselves an op- pressed minority.

Street brawls after the Or angemen's parades are an an- nual occurrence in Northern Ireland, but the fights escalated into communal riots in about -naif a dozen towns Saturday, and flared again Sunday in Loo-' donderry, nearby Dungiven and in Lurgan. 100 miles to the WERE LOOTED Arsonists set fires in homes, and rioters looted stores and windows in Londonderry. Af least 40 persons were arrest ed and Catholic priests Joined police in appealing to the mobs to go borne. -Two men were slightly wound- when a group of policemen were trapped in a blind alley in Londonderry Catholic area of Bogside and Tired into the air to get out. In Lo-rgan.

police locked themselves in their barracks while mobs roamed the streets, burning two police cars and a 'Protestant hall. At Dungiven, other police had Tto fight their way through stone-throwing mob to reach an Orange hall in which a group of policemen were trapped while "Molotov cocktails were tossed in tne braidings. Main worry for the autbori-- ties was that the rioting would spread to Belfast, so far the scene of only sporadic clashes, Belfast, the capital, has more than one-third of Ulster's IFfoo Page ok son nm noniiUiian. and serious trouble there would stretch to the limit Northern Ireland's police' force. Bogside, Londonderry Catholic area, sealed itself off from the (est of the city with barricades of overturned trucks and debris.

Bogside is a maze of narrow streets of smalt Victorian houses. In this, as in previous Deny riots, the crowds auto-, madcally retreated there once police regained control of the city centre. Claude Wilton, chairman of the Deny Citizens Civil Rights Association and a member of the Northern- Ireland Upper House, went up to the barri cades early today to attempt1 to persuade the rioters to calm down. He was hit on the head by a bottle and carted off for treatment Bernadette Devlin, 22-year- old member of the British Parliament, watched the be ginnings of the Londonerry troubles and put it down to "kids end drink." But later she urgently telephoned the home office in London to demand details of police action in the riots. Eamonn McCann, one of the more extreme leftists in the civil rights movement, said: "This nothing to do with civil rights.

The old primeval instincts have come to the sur face. "It is a religious war, aggra vated by the massive Catholic unemployment in Deny and by the bed housing conditions in the Bogside." Couple Chased I At 3.30 a.m. Mr. Paquette. a civilian employee of National Defence Departmen, was driv ing to Petawawa trom macs Bay when his attention was drawn to the light by a female companion from Pembroke, She thought it was a falling star.

It was no falling star and it was following us," Mr. re queue said Sunday afternoon. "I always thought I had guts, but I' was never so scared in my life." He said the Petawawa River, Darallelinjt the road, was lit up like day." Convinced that the light "was aimed right at us. he turned off the car headlights. The- oncoming light appeared to hesitate.

Ooeninar a car door, Mr. Pa- ouette realized he had made mistake when the roof light automatically switched on. That was when tne ut-u descended to within CO feet of the ground. I rot out and started signal ling with my flashlight and this: rig started jto come ror us. CAME AT US AGAIN He said ft appeared to be eiaht feet in diameter and eauioDed with two legs.

Terrified, he lumped Into tne car and drove to tne neaiesr house, occupied by Mr. -and Mrs. Gerry Chartrand. "My friend got hysterical and ran away yelling "Have you got a phone? My God. have you got a be said.

"I finally got ner in tne car to drive her borne after telling ner that if we were going to get it we were going to get At borne, the light Hovering above the bouse, be wakened his son, Sam. 17. and daughter Gloria Ann. 14. The four of us drove as far as the gate and the light came down at us again.

Mr. Pa ouette said. It didn't bother us alter mat but Gloria Ann bad run back in the bouse, she wi scared." Having telephoned police, Mr. Paquette and others watched the light from Highway 17 in Petawawa Village. Among those who witnessed the light were Pte.

Edward Cresswell, a military policeman from Base Petawawa. and Blaine Grace. James Pitt and coma i JOIN NOW APPLICATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR MEMBERSHIP IN OTTAWA'S NEWEST CLUB. THE MINTO CLUB OF OTTAWA IS PREPARING TO BUILD A YEAR "ROUND FAMILY CLUB (SWIMMING TENNIS -CURLING HOCKEY SKATING GYMNASTICS -LOUNGES). FOR INFORMATION TELEPHONE 234-1631 Larry Romain, all from the vil r-' tt The object did not show on radar screens at Canadi Forces Station, Foymount, 32 miles south, of Petawawa.

Lights of that sort reported before have never shown on radar," said public relations of fice Capt William "We received a verbal report from provincial police and for warded it to North Bay." The Foymount message was the only report of a UFO sight ing received at RCAF Station North Bay, a station spokes man said. tin iMMcncb HEATHER r-r- wear. 1 I i "vr haV waWwa 1I afi ia- t-oo July July Jmy July TEMPERATURES Low last night and high Sunday at: Dawson 48, 77; Vancouver 53, 68; Calgary 44, 67; Regina 53, 76; Winnipeg 60. 85; Lakehead 60. 73; North Bay 60.

80; Toronto 69, 85; Ottawa 69, 80; Montreal 57. 75; Halifax 54, 61; St John's 52. 70; Chicago 68, 86; Bos- wuaktu '''HW Dominioa Public Weather Office Forecast: Ottawa and Montreal: Sunny and warm today and Tuesday. Light, winds. High today 85, low tonight 65, high Tuesday 85.

Toronto: Mostly sunny and warm Tuesday. A few clouds and chance of isolated thunderstorms Tuesday. Winds JiEmV 17 LASH NOSE-CUTTERS 1 ton (4. 66; New York 67, Washington 66, 91; Miami 79, 95; St. Louis 73, 96; 'Tucson 81, 101; Orlando: 75, 90.

KARACHI (Reuters) Any one who cuts off another man's nose a common form of revenge here is liable to be whipped under-a new order of the martial law authorities in West Pakistan. Courts also can order flogging for convicted rapists and kidnappers, and in cases of robbery violence and cattle stealing. 'But if a pretty serious thing te do when you knew that kids out there are the seas and daughters of your friends and that if they refuse te leave, they can be shot," he said. Carleton Place Town police with assistance from Perth Ontario Provincial Police, massed at the park as the youths who had been threat ening action against the car- neys" all week, were on the verge of open warfare. Only one arrest was made during the tension-filled two hours at the park.

Police took a 20-year-old Ashton Station youth. Mike Sloan, into custody and. later charged him with causing a Three carnival employees were arrested early Saturday morning following an attack on a town youth at the park. MeraCotafbrtWHirlig FALSE TEETH nmaxaxm amp oowa vaa cat Jrjrtt wTprtnfcW FASTEXTH MIA TABTKXTU aUBMoT lOBCwf TOH 1 Don tana that At inntm to a. 8m Toor dtnott iwaruttnr.

0. FAaTl'UlU at ail diurz oounUts. SHOP ZELLER'S and "CHARGE-IT" Use Convenient Cnarje Accoent Arrested and detained at county Jail, were: Ar 1 Ryan, 19, ef St tatharines; Merlin CasSeu, 28. et Ottawa, and Charles -James, 32, of Brantfard. The three were charged with assault and occasioning bodily harm.

An additional charge of possession of an assumed weapon was also laid against James, Authorities said trouble on the midway had been brewing throughout the week and tem pers flared when a town youth was badly beaten, while wan ing his girlfriend through the park. Youths brandishing tire irons and wrenches, congregated at the park shortly before mid-night, as the carnival was about to close on its final night. "Both groups seemed pretty said Mayor Julian. "It would have been slaughter "if they had met," "Just one of the cameys could probably have taken any 10 youths and had tfaem for said the mayor. After threatening to read the Riot Act.

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