DISGRACEFUL RIOTING

Marlborough Express, Volume XVII, Issue 217, 15 September 1882, Page 2

DISGRACEFUL RIOTING

Serious rioting h'as occurred atTredegar, Monmouthshire! Tw'6'lrishmen having joined^, fjhe. Sajyation - !inny : tlie t cn:cuiustanoe g^yepSqpoo to ' 'iu.e ] |lrjsli V residents, !and } : for several days' the Army, upon mardhing out, were, assaulted by tihem. This/and a. rvunpr-.^at 1 the; .Jpsb had attempted to poison the reservoir:at'Mountain Ash led to'-in embittered feeUng on the part of the English and residents. On July y 6/ribting^as' c feared, and eighty special constables were sworn in. These. ;apprehpnpienß were well founded,' for in the course ,of r the t ; eyening j some "Welshmen were 1 attacked by an Irishman, who armed with a scythe, inflicted suoh serious •injuries upon -one 1 'of ?his opponents that the man's life is despaired of. Thereupon a body 'of .^elshmen, attacked/the Ir^sh quarter,; • several houses-; were, literally gutted, furniture thrown ,out in the street , and smashed, and the Irish residents violently assaulted whenever caught. The police were powerless, and rioting lasted several hoursi Manylrisii families ,were rendered' homeless,' and had-' to find {shelter, for , the nighj; about the, coal > pits. A telegram of July 9 says : -jrJ'jßipting: has, again, broken -put. Thousands of people thrbng v ,the streets, and the work of sacking' the houses .of the, .^rish r . residents has "' °be'en . ' resumed. ' ' ' Great excitement'- 1 has bttah' 'occasioned by ,the circulation of a.reporfc that the police have ' oaptured 'two; ■■ oases; of Enfieldu rifles which iwere .in: .the possession , of the . Irish. In East lane twO : houses'have ; been 1 Wked and the 1 furniture ' bnrned'to ashes ; and two 'Irishmen wounded in last night's affray, have been removed to^the workhouse, t6-day in a very '•precarious" obndition. VigHfiMs raeasures;^re necessary to. repress tumult,, and.it is | ifumpred/ that the military have: been telegraphed for.