CHOLERA RIOTS.
THE OFFICIALS OVERPOWERED
INVASION OF' HOSPITAL
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.) (Rpfpiv-pd October 17, 11.25 a.m.) ROME, October 16. There have been serious cholera riots at Sejni. A mob, believing that the officials' action to combat cholera was the outcome of a design to slaughter innocent people, besieged the Town Hall. They overcame a small force of carbineers and sacked the building. The* mob then invaded the hospital and carried away the patients, some of whom were on the point of death, to their homes. . I
Tiie military were subsequently reinforced :and quelled the riot.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12586, 17 October 1911, Page 5
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