CAUSE OF RIOT
FISTICUFFS AT FOOTBALL
(Received November 19, 2.23 p.m.)
LONDON, November 18.
The Nairobi correspondent of "The Times" states that the riot of natives at Isiolo, Kenya, originated from a bout of fisticuffs between two opposing players in a football match between the King's African Rifles-and Italian deserters. The referee stopped the game, but a general fracas followed, the Eritrean spectators seizing firewood and attacking the military players and spectators. Then the Guards fired and in 30 seconds quelled the trouble. Nine native deserters from Italian forces in Eritrea were killed and 27 were wounded when .a guard of the King's African Rifles fired on rioters in an encampment at Isiolo, Kenya. Ten African riflemen were injured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1937, Page 10
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119CAUSE OF RIOT Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1937, Page 10
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