RIOTING IN DOMINICA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8799, 29 April 1907, Page 2

RIOTING IN DOMINICA.

Press Association.—Copyright. ' London, April 2?. Following the riotous coal heavers’ strike at Port Castries, in the island o£ St. Lucia, which the Governor of the Windward Islands settled after a number of police and several private persons had been wounded, the sugar labourers at Bosean in Dominica rioted and burned great areas of sugar cane.

The police while holding a cul-de-sac in a factory against the rioters on Wednesday, killed or wounded 19. Mr E. C. Williams, Governor of the Windward Islands, arrived and induced the attackers to accompany him and his secretary to Eosean, where he quietened them and the rest of the malcontents. The strikers in Dinnery district on Thursday marched to Castries. The Eiot Act was read and order maintained. Police draf ts are expected from Barhadoes and St. Vincent and the cruiser Indefatigable has been ordered to proceed to Castries. A Dutch warship is also in the I harbour. As the rioters wore again turbulent yesterday a volunteer detachment with a I maxim was sent from Barhadoes.