I SHANKILL SUFFERS. BY CYRLL TOMAN Ballymurphy, Falls, eympathy with the people aommualty whom the ea to Smpreee by shows

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1 I SHANKILL SUFFERS The heavy-handed way in troops dealt with the crowd was deplorable: the situation escalated until the entire population of the Shankill area was under attack, I BY CYRLL TOMAN Ballymurphy, Falls, rncrath after month the army jackboot descends to predict the result when a crowd Peoples Democracy has always month the ordinary workfully armed in crowd situations. Hoping that the army can restore Belfast have their homes In the very first issue of Free order in such a situation is like saturated with C.S. gas, cba~ged with disorderly behaviour and being sent Ae h the case af the BaUymurphyl eympathy with the people aommualty whom the ea to Smpreee by shows Eritish troops with their repressive methods are causing far more trouble than the prevent. They are a crutch which the weak government prefers to lean upon rather than to implement reforms. The sooner they go, the better. tjpw tdmte and the l

2 I -1Ihh' 1 SO PURDIE ( Puzzle Corner 1 Lalo. n1~. G~bborls lo]tl how he initiated a search tor a jpb &~e~id@ the army ror Capt. Kells. Mr. Haughoy: he said. suggested the ~ab of Pig smuggling prevantive officer..mr. Hauphey h$ told h~rn lhat he gat thrs idea when he was watching the soldiers l PURDIE - BRANCHMAN. Readers are asked to suggest an explanation - in 25 words or less - for the connection which Mr. Haugheyls mind made between two seemingly unrelated subjects. PRIZE : Conducted tour : The Monasteries of Cavan. -S KY MAN Disappointment for Paisley his reactiodary KKK buddy Dr. Car1 McIntyre. Vice-president of the Saigon regime Air Marshall Ky (opium smuggler and fan of fhe late Adplf Hitler) will not be attending McIntyrefs 'Right wing r ay for victoryf in Washington, In Paris Ky said he wouldn't be going "because of all those violent students who would demonstrate against himf'. RIGHT ON! Supt. Thompson Backs Down When P. D. speakers arrived icl Church Place, Lurgan, last Saturday to hold a meeting against mamiatory six months sentences, they found that the local R. U. C. euperintendent. Thompson, had attf?eumbed to a relapse of pre- Young swine fever and was warning P. D. members that they must clear aff to e "Catholic Area" (his term) of the bwn. The Superintendent claimed that the centre of Lurgan, :as traditionally reserved fur LayaUstt' meetings. P,D. members made it clear that b y WO- not accept his sectarian geogtraphy d tbe town, and that it ww BOt su~~~edl to be the police's job to support the Unionistel mono@y of meetinp ia the centre of SaDrtbero tgppgs. Tpom~ esid that he had "rec- not come to Lurgan there would 1 be no trouble". He then declared that, if P.D. speakers went ahead with the meeting he would arrest them on charges of "behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace". P. D. members present held a short discussion and decided to proceed with the meeting in Church Phce; they would defend themselves in the courts if necessary. Brian Tipping, Michael Farrell and John Gray spoke. army Thompson called in the Army. Perhaps remembering how they had been used to m t a riot in Lurgan eix weeks ago (see FREE CITIZEN No. 48) the Army were unenthrteiaetic: their officer was seen to ehrug his shoulders. Supapintendent Thompoonl e bluff wag called. There woa no dirarder sad no arrerte, At the Lurgan meerirrg Thcmxpot appsared ru the glorified meaeoge boy d the b at right-wing UniOnSlta, He claimed tlsat the breach of the peace, and accord: ingly he was going to arrest the organisers of the meeting. What happened in Lurgan was a mere three days after Sir Arthur Young had announced his resignation. Already the R. U. C. are trying to return to their old sectarian role. "A battle will have to be fought in the next few weeks to prevent the extreme Right of the Unionist Party reneging on the few reforms that have already been won. Those reforms must be safeguarded as a part of the greater struggle against exploitatian in genera. The P.D. intend to continue with FREE CITIZEN alw rzewsl and articba.

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4 S 4 Fgiele3f to Craig, Weat and the leak Ulster Unionist Council. on &e mm was the despairing gone as Winistar of same Affair@ c'ry of c&qaw working people, who to be replaed by right-winger Tayfop pm= been brainwashed by lop. aa'tkl.t~: YQU%, awointed tfse CrGga, Braokes, and Chichest- to dels=t.ariaaise the R.u*Ca P M es- 2arkes, and n- saw them- to be replaced by Shil;li~@.on, wko was swond-ia-command to the dis- currey being risolu awaiting gas throwing inse of Cowons at date the tedium. Ef anyone like to write to hiim, even a nes of good wishes, his adis: Frank Roach, Brixton replaced by someone even further &b%t might not be lost if they to the right. In the memtime dhe the P. D. Resistance was never

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