CARDIFF RIOTS.
• CONFLICTS WITH POLICE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. London, July 19. r ßiots at Cardiff are due to the seamen’s strike. Earlier in the day the dry dock labourers and cargo men struck in sympathy with the seamen. , All were soon out of hand, and collection boxes at the east dock weio fired. Subsequently tho strikers fired the Liverpool and Dublin Steamship Co.’s warehouse, believing it was used to shelter blacklegs. Tho damage amounts to £12,000. Meanwhile a dozen barrels of beer were rolled from the quay and the contents distributed to ft t.ho mob, many becoming intoxicated. i Barrels of beef packed in ice were also looted. Firemen, using the hoses, frustrated an endeavour to fire barrels of petroleum. The strikers retaliated with stones, and there wore numerous baton charges by the police. Thirty were badly injured, including several police. Though military assistance was at first requested, it was decided to introduce 350 police.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 126, 20 July 1911, Page 5
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