RIOT IN NEW YORK
ON THANKSGIVING DAY.
“I was the witness of a most extraordinary riot in New York on thanksgiving Day,” said a ’Wellington resident who recently returned from America to a Dominion reporter yesterday. ‘ I hero is iu New York a very old social club, the members of which are, for the most part, fine old fellows on the shady .side of fifty. On Thanksgiving Day, which was a Sunday, they had the premises of the club decorated with the flags of the Allies, merely as a. memory or reminder of America’s safe delivery in the recent war. Next the club was a Roman Catholic Church, and when its members issued forth from the • morning service ihe sight of the flags seemed to madden them, for they attacked the club and smashed every window in. real Donnybrook fashion, until the police camo along. Now, most of the New I ork police are* big Irishmen, and I was curious to see what would happen, so at some personal risk I stayed to watch the encounter. Did the police hesitate a moment? Not they. With truncheons out, and active, they waded into the peace-destroyers, and after a brief battle dispersed them. Some thirty people were taken to the hospital—but they were nut policemen.”
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 125, 19 February 1921, Page 6
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213RIOT IN NEW YORK Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 125, 19 February 1921, Page 6
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