FIGHTING AT LINCOLN.
RIOT ACT READ AT 2 A.M. MUCH DAMAGE DONE. (Rec. August SI, 9.5 p.m.) London, .August 21. , Serious disturbances occurred ac Lincoln. Ou Saturday uigiit the mob allocked tlie ureai Aortiieru and Midland railway stations, ami stoned the police. The constables mado constant baton charges on mo crowd. Hundreds of shop windows were smashed, and two constables and mauy rioters wero injured, Somo brewery offices wero also set on fire. Tho Riot Act was read at two o'clock in the morning, and the military summoned. Till' mob then dispersed. Some rioting' is reported in Dublin, where 120 persons received minor injuries. Hooligans at Tredegar, in South Wales, profiting by the labour troubles, looted eighteen Jews' shops. Saturday's misdeeds also included an attempt to wreck an Ancrington-Todmorden passenger train in Lancashire, a riot at liirkenbead, and looting at Neath, near Cardiff.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1212, 22 August 1911, Page 5
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