AGITATORS CAUSE RIOT
TROUELE IN CORINTH EARTHQUAKE FUND ALLOCATION (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.; (Times Cables.) LONDON, Dec. 13. The Times’ Athens correspondent reports 11 casualties at Corinth during a collision between rioters and troops and police arising from the earth-, quake, public subscriptions for sufferers from which realised £150,000. Agitators demanded immediate distribution. The Government claimed that temporary housing and other relief to all sufferers had been provided, mid it was therefore retaining the relief fund as a nucleus for a rebuilding fund. The agitators provoked a disturbance. A crowd of sufferers stoned residences of the relief committee and iof used to disperse. Troops were summoned and the police fired, five rioters, four soldiers, a military officer and a police chief being wounded. The ringleaders were arrested and order has been restored.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16828, 15 December 1928, Page 5
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