RACIAL WAR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13728, 18 August 1908, Page 5

RACIAL WAR.

ANTI-NEGUO RIOTS IN AMERICA. INNOCENT BLACKS LYNCHED. FATAL CONFLICT WITH POLICE. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. LONDON, August 17. The Times' Washington correspondent describes the gratuitous brutality of the mob at Springfield as surpassing any racial excesses of recent years. When the mob attempted to break into the gaol and lynch two negroes, one of whom was accused of tho crime referred to in the previous cable message, the officials motored both away. The mob, foiled in their plans, then wrecked a restaur&nt belonging to the owner of the,motor. The soldiers, in the tussle at this stage, killed two and wounded twenty. The mob thereupon rushed the negro quarter. All the negroes had taken refuge in the arsenal or suburbs. Tho mob destroyed their property. Two innocent negroes were caught and lynched. A_n attempt to reach the arsenal was frustrated. A brick serioiisly injured Claffin, the Prohibition Party's candidate for the Presidency, in tho head. He was shielding a negro when it was thrown. Router's Springfield correspondent states that the cavalry charged the mobs. The riots are quelled, but the situation of the negroes is -piteous. Few" of them venture into the streets.