RACIAL RIOTS.
THE CHICAGO FIGHTING. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. i\E\V YORK, July 29. Fourteen whites and eight negroes were killed and about 500 were injured in the race riots at Chicago. Throughout Monday night mobs controlled the streets, and there was wild fighting and shooting. The trouble arose out of an attempt to compel negroes to occupy their own bathing beaches.
CHICAGO RIOTS.
COMPLICATED BY STRIKE, Received 7.40 p.m.. July 30th XF.W YORK, *.luly -29. Rioting continues in Chicago, the financial district of the city bsing affected. The casualties total fiveTtundred injured and twenty-six dead. Of the latter sixteen are whites. The situation is aggravated by a strike of tramwaymeu which tied up the city's transportation system. Altogether fifteen thousand employees are out.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16871, 31 July 1919, Page 7
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