TROUBLE IN TRINIDAD
RIOTS ON OILFIELDS TWO PEOPLE KILLED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), June 21, (Received June 22, at 10 a.m.) The British cruiser Kent is steaming towards Port of Spain as the result of a strike riot on the oilfields. A police sub-inspector and a corporal were killed during the fighting, and many police and civilians wounded'. The telephone lines were cut. Additional police have been sent to the scene of the trouble, pending the arrival of Navy reinforcements.
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Evening Star, Issue 22681, 22 June 1937, Page 9
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83TROUBLE IN TRINIDAD Evening Star, Issue 22681, 22 June 1937, Page 9
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