Massacre of Negroes.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8197, 26 September 1906, Page 5

Massacre of Negroes.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.)

NEW YORK, Sept. 25. Public houses are still closed at Atlanta. Seventeen companies of infantry, besides cavalry and artillery, are now maintaining order. It now appears that many of the alleged criminal assaults by negepes on white women were not assaults at all.

The New York Evening Post declaros that nothing has happened in Cuba in the remotest degree approaching the Atlanta horror, and the United States cannot now fairly protest against even the terrible Russian excess.'

Received September 26, at 7.38 a.m. NEW YORK, September 25. ihe New York Evening Post states the Atlanta outbreak was the result of a campaign of denunciation of negroes which the politicians and press of Georgia have pursued for the last six months.

One of the newspapers offered a reward of a thousand dollars for killing every negro accused of assaulting a white woman.

Eeceived September 26, at 8.32 a.m. 2 NEW YORK, September 25.

The negroes at Atlanta ambushed and killed a police officer and wounded four out of ten constables. The rest retaliated, killing several.