RIOTING IN WALES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1212, 22 August 1911, Page 5

RIOTING IN WALES.

: RAILWAY LINE TORN UP. SIX JIEN KILLED. 1 London, August 20. i While a train was entering I-lanclly, in 1 South Wale;, yesterday, a mob standing * on tho slopes beside the track stoned the fc police and soldiers guarding tho line, and attacked the driver and fireman. Tlis Worcestershire Regiment advanced and aji officer warned the rioters, but wifihout result. The Riot Act was then .read. Tho crowd laughed and jeered at the officer. The soldiers fired in the air. Tile jeers were renewed. Then the' troops fired ij volley overhead, and two others at lower range. 3 Two Spectators Killed. 3 None of the mob were hit, but of four persons in a garden in tho vicinity two were killed, including an invalid Londoner, and two severely injured. The railway men late at night and early to-day were so incensed at I lie incident that, they destroyed a section of tho line, held up a troop train at. Llann dilo Junction, and captured a quantity of 0 ammunition. They also looted shops at |l'4aaelljr, and set Jije to trucks contain-

iug provisions, and to the railway goods shed, where an explosion killed six persons and injured several others. Many others were wounded in bayonet charges by the troops clearing tho streets. Later.

Tho military Teport that tho railway men wore not responsible for the rioting at Llanelly. MADDENED WITH DRINK. MAGISTRATES' PREMISES WRECKED (lice. August 21, 10.10 p.m.) London, August 21. Many of the Llanelly rioters were maddened with drink. Two explosions occurred. One man was so mutilated as to bo unrecognisable. ■ Another mob wreckcd and plundered the premises belonging to tho magistrates concerned in the reading of tho Riot Act.