RIOT IN JAMAICA.
POLICE FIRE ON CROWD.
(BY CABLE—MESS ASSOCIATION COPTEIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
(Received June 10th, 10.45 p.m.)
KINGSTON (Jamaica), June 9,
A strike of municipal labourers for an increase in pay developed into a riot, in which Corporation property was destroyed. The mob attacked the police and reinforcements arrived. Finally the police were compelled to fire on the rioters, killing two and wounding several.
The military.,were called out and the rioters dispersed.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18096, 11 June 1924, Page 9
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