SERIOUS RIOTS.
NINETEEN STRIKERS KILLED AND WOUNDED. Received April 28, 5.8 p.m. LONDON, April 27. Following on the riotous coal heavers' strike at Port Castries, Island of St. Lucia, which the Governor of the Wihdward Islands settled aftsr a number of police and several private persons were wounded, the sugar labourers at Rosan and Dominica rioted and burnt a great quantity of sugar-cane. The police, while holding a factory against the rioters on Wednesday, killed and wounded nineteen. Mr R. Williams, Governor of the Windward Islands, arrived and induced the attackers to accompany him and the Secretary to Rosean, where he quietened them. The strikers in the Dinnery district on Thursday marched to Castries. The Riot Act was read and order was maintained. Police drafts are expected from Barbadoes and St. Vincent. Tne cruiser Indefatigable has 1 been ordered to proceed to Castries. A Dutch warship is in the harbour. As the rioters were again turbulent, yesterday, a volunteer detachment with a Maxim gun was sent from Barbados.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8412, 29 April 1907, Page 5
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168SERIOUS RIOTS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8412, 29 April 1907, Page 5
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