RIOT FOLLOWS COMEDY.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph-rCopyright.) (Received Feb. 0. 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, February 8. Twenty thousand persons- were arrest-' ■ ed at Westport m connection with the theatrical disturbances, when a crowd of , 400 attacked jo, company, broke the windows of their hotel, . stormed the < stago, and smashed the scenery. , A cornedy — "General ' John Regan" — , written by the Rector of Westport (Co. Ma'vo), whose nom-de-plume is George A. Birmingham, was acted at Westport. Subsequently a riot occurred, >due to the belief that *the Baltymoy of the play was Westport.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13300, 9 February 1914, Page 3
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89RIOT FOLLOWS COMEDY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13300, 9 February 1914, Page 3
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