GUIANA STRIKE
Tear Gas Used
(NZPA-Reuttr—Copyright) GEORGETOWN, June 27.
Sixteen children aged between 5 days and 8 years have been treated in hospital after a demonstration yesterday during which police fired tear gas grenades during strike riots in Georgetown, British Guiana. Strikers defied police orders to disperse. They jeered at the police’s new method of spraying them with waiter chemically treated to cause itching. When the spraying failed to disperse them police lobbed tear gas into the crowd. A strong breeze fanned the fumes into a nearby Government housing area, affecting children. More demonstrations continued throughout Georgetown and tear gas was again used when the crowd invaded offices of the State Electricity Corporation. The strikers, now veterans in the art of overcoming tear gas effects, defied the police until advised to disperse by Mr Hamilton Green, secretary of the opposition People's National Congress. The police superintendent in charge of the anti-sabotage squad (Mr Ley linger) is reported to have been beaten up in a Georgetown street last night. He is said to be suffering facial injuries. British troops were called to the city centre to help police control the crowds.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30171, 1 July 1963, Page 6
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