TRINIDAD OIL FIELDS
FATAL RIOT REPORTED
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]
(Reed. June 22, 10.30 am.) FORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad). June 21. The British cruiser Kent is steaming towards the Port of Spain, as (he result of a strike riot on the oilfield. A police sub-inspector and a corporal were killed during the fighting, and many police and civilians wore wounded. Telephone lines were cut. Additional police have been sent to the scene of the trouble, ponding the arrival of navy reinforcements.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1937, Page 2
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