Belfast May 30.
Irish nationalists burned more than 100 gas masks in the streets here last night. The nationalist action, which completely surprised the North Irish authorities, ended with shots being exchanged between demonstrators and police.
Yesterday noon an illegal broadcasting station of the Irish Nationalists asked members of the Irish Republican Army to collect gas masks and burn them publicly. The illegal broadcasters used the slogan: "The issuing of gas masks in Ulster is the symptom of English rule over Ireland."
Members of the I. R. A. systematic colly searched houses for gas masks, made a pile in the streets, poured petrol over the masks and burnt them. Order was finally restored after flying squads and armoured cars had appeared on the scene—Trans-Ocean.
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