TEARGAS FAILS
Strikers Toss Bombs Back
(N Z.PJi.-Reuter—Copyright) GEORGETOWN, June 10.
Police using tear - gas battled for two hours with striking demonstrators outside the British Guiana Parliament in Georgetown yesterday. Scores of people were arrested. At one point, the crowds drove police away by catching the tear-gas shells and hurling them back. The demonstrators had buckets of water and soaked their handkerchiefs to use as masks to counter the gas. Strikers threw one of the police tear-gas grenades into a police vehicle containing about 12 men. One policeman was hurt in the rush to get out. Pokce eventually withdrew the tear-gas squads, apparently deciding that more teargas wpuld only inflame the crowd further. The crowd then dispersed. i
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30155, 12 June 1963, Page 9
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