MANY INJURED IN BIG RIOT IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA
Rec. 6 p.m. Kingston (Jamaica) Jan 15 Scores were injured tonight in a riot between followers of the Labour leader. W. A. Bustamente, and the People's National Party. Fighting continued for five hours before the police could stop it. Rioters carried cutlasses, pick-axes, shovels and iron bars. The reason for the riot is believed to be connected with the appearance in Court today of Bustamente on six charges of obstructing the police after incidents in the recent strike.
Bustamente is reported to have said: “I shall let go a force to protect myself. For months I have had to defend myself against Communists with my fists and the butt of my gun.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 17 January 1948, Page 5
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