CANADIAN RIOT.
LONDON, March 10
JBrigadier-General Colquhoun states thai the Canadian rioters did not attack the officers but treated them with the greatest courtesy. The reports of the damage to the camp were greatly exaggerated. Some fifty or sixty men in one camp, anticipating trouble, armed themselves and fired, contrary to orders. The girls' camp was treated with the utmost chivalry. None of the men entered the girls' bedrooms while they were occupied. The man who raised the r«d flag of Bolshevism w»b shot.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9546, 11 March 1919, Page 5
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