RIOT IN A CAMP.
FISTICUFFS DURING FOOTBALL. (United Press Association— Copyright.) LONDON, November 18. Tho Nairobi correspondent of “The Times” says that the riot in which nine native deserters from Italian forces in Eritrea were killed and Zt were wounded, originated through fisticuffs between two opposing players during a football match, the King s African Rifles versus Italian deserters. The referee stopped the game and a general fracas followed, Eritrean spectators seizing firewood and attacking the military players and spectators. Then the guards fired on them. Thirty seconds sufficed to quel the disturbance.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 35, 20 November 1937, Page 8
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