RIOTS IN DETROIT
ALLEGED CLASH BETWEEN WHITES AND NEGROES TROOPS RESTORE ORDER Washington, June 22. Twenty negroes and three whites were killed and over 700 people injured in race riots in Detroit. Order was restored by troops sent to the city after Mr Stimson, War Secretary, had directed Major General Aurant, head of the Sixth Service Command, to use troops to suppress the riots. No official explanation of the cause has been given but correspondents believe the riots started after clashes between whites and negroes. President Roosevelt issued a proclamation ordering all persons engaged in unlawful and insurrectionary proceedings in Detroit to retire peaceably to their homes. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 23 June 1943, Page 2
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