POLISH RIOTS
STRIKERS FIGHT TROOPS (“Times” Ser wee.) LONDON, November 9. The “Times’s” Cracow correspondent states: Twenty-one were killed and eighty wounded in a clash between the police, military and rioters there, as the outcome of the general strike. The soldiers and police, excepting the detachments guarding public buildings are now confined to barracks, Armed patrols of workmen are maintaining order. A large number of cavalry horses killed in the skirmishes are lying in the streets. There is much public outcry
> i neru io juuvii ■ against the methods of the military in handling the trouble. The only satisfactory side of the affair is the prompt manner in which the bulk of the strikers immediately obeyed their leaders’ orders to return to work. It is contended that the strike might I have been settled wit limit bloodshed by conciliatory handling on the part of the Government.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 November 1923, Page 5
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