RACIAL WAR IN AMERICA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9317, 18 August 1908, Page 1

RACIAL WAR IN AMERICA.

EXCESSES OF THE MOB. TTnited Press Association— By Eleotrio Telegraph — Copyright LONDON, August 17. The Washington correspondent of, the . * Times' 1 describes the gratuitous brutality of the mob at Springfield as surpassing, i. any racial excesses of |*ecent years. When the mob attempted to lynch two negroes at the gaol, me; of • whom was accused of a crimo Kgainst a white woman, the officials took both away in a motor-car. The friob, foiled, then wrecked a restaurant belonging to the owner of the motorbar. The soldiers in a tussle at this Itage killed two persons and wounded bwenty. The mob thereupon rutehed the negro quarter, but nearly all the inhabitants had taken refuge in the yrsenal or in the suburbs. The mob der Strayed their property. Two innocent negroes were caught and lynched. An attempt to reach the arsenal was frustrated: ■ . ■ ■ • . ." . ;A brick seriously injured Mr Claffin, the Prohibition Party's candidate for the Presidency, in the head, while he Siras shielding a negro. Renter's* Springfield correspondent ktates that cavalry charged the mobs. 4*he riots have been quelled, but the situation of the negroes is piteous, ■\ JPew, venture into the streets.