TROOPS TO QUELL RIOTS
Reuter's Telegram. (Received June 12, 10.55 p.m.) HALIFAX (Novia Scotia), June 12. Word was -received here this morning indicating that the disorders are spreading in the Cape Breton district, where the coal miners are striking. Rioting is to have broken out in the New Aberdeen Glace Bay district. Five hundred troops, fully equipped, are en route to New Waterford, where the striking miners and police clashed on Thursday- The miners are still in possession of the powerhouse which they captured from the police. The looting of the stores' of the British Empire Steel Corporation, in the vicinity of New,Waterford, is reported.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12163, 13 June 1925, Page 6
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