RIOTS IN WALES.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXI, Issue 2723, 25 November 1910, Page 2

RIOTS IN WALES.

FIERCE FIGHTS WITH

POIyICE

MORE INFANTRY SENT.

FIFTY RIOTERS INJURED

[By Electric Telegraph.]

London, November 23

Desperate fights between the strikers and police at Penygraig and Ton-y----pandy occurred yesterday.

The police in the main streets were subjected by the strikers to sudden rushes from side alleys.

The rioters hurled stones and household utensils, filled with boiling water, from the verandahs on to the heads of

the police,

The chairman oi the miners' committee vainly appealed to them to cease violence, but was unheeded and narrowly escaped personal injury. Fifty rioters were injured. The Times condemns Mr Churchill's vacillating and feeble administration of South Wales, which has resulted in disorder and violence, citizens being terrorised, shops plundered and dwellings destroyed. Mr Churchill, in reply to Earl Wintevton, stated in the House of Commons last night that additional infantry had been sent to South Wales, and more would follow if needed. The authorities had been instructed to arrest offenders, particularly thieves, rioters, and intimidators.

Riots have occurred at Abermain. The mining officials' houses were attacked, and the police stoned.