LIB FOREIGNERS FLEE

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1930, Page 7

LIB FOREIGNERS FLEE

TWO KILLED IN RIOTING MINERS RESENT ‘INSOLENCE’ BATTLES WITH THE POLICE GENERAL STRIKE THREAT By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received 8.30 p.m. Lima (Peru), Nov. 13 Foreigners in the mountainous interior around the mining areas of Laoroya are fleeing to-night before enraged miners who rioted and killed two Americans and one Austrian and wounded many others. Twelve miners were killed and 25 wounded in battles with the police, who have been reinforced by Republican Guards. The Cerro de Paso Company ordered its 350 employers, mostly British, to leave immediately. Labour difficulties caused the riots in which the miners staged demonstrations. Thereupon the labour leaders seized two British mine employees. The miners threatened to strike unless they were released. This was done and the situation is believed to be calmer. When the news of the riots was received and the evacuation was ordered the confederation of workers in Lima called a strike in protest against the “insolent attitude of the British Imperialistic firm of Duncan, Fox and Company in conflict with the labourers of the union textile factory.” The newspaper Comercio in a leader stated that the "general strike threat must ■be regarded as a manifestation of a revolutionary character which cannot be condoned in any manner.”