RIOT OF CANADIANS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13781, 10 March 1919, Page 6

RIOT OF CANADIANS.

OUTCOME OF MUDDLING

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Aesoeiatioa.) LONDON, Saturday. A riot at tho Canadian camp at lihyl, in Wales, coneernin<r pay ami demobilisation, bewail on Tuesday night, the ringleader crying out, "Come on, Bolsheviks! 7 ' Thousands of pounds' wor'h of damage was done, and quantities of food and clothes were destroyed. The rioters attempted to inarch out of camp, bur were stopped by machine An ollji-er neroplaned, to the camp today. and addressed the men, promising that their grievances would he removed. Me said that four transport* would shortly be available. Some of the rioters captured a brewer's dray, and became intoxicated. A number of arrests were made. Later details .show that -'0.000 Canadians took part iv the camp disturbances, chietly owing to dissatisfaction at recent arrivals returning to Canada before wen who had fought in. France. T)n v rioters overpowered ami disarmed, the guards, and wrecked (be storerooms. Titer then found the liquor stni , ' 1 : and went on with fresh excesses. A number of girls were attached to the cam i>. The riot its forced an entry into I'n.-ir sleeping huts, and found, the girls >n bed. The gills cowered before the in'mders. who seized tlieir clothes and dressed up iv them. No physical harm was done to the -iris. The disturbances continued all night, when tho rioters, dog tired,. went to bed. The riots were renewed on \\ ednes('lav afternoon, when the camp was reduced to ruin. Heer was handed round in fire buckets. Drunken men, parading in women V clothes, raided the ammunition stores ;,ud attacked the oflicors' quarters. Then , was wild, indiscriminate tiring, and a number were killed. IVlanv of the rioters were wounded by the (ire of their own. comrades. The cavalry was called, out, but wanot allowed to use arms. The riots ended at uiuht. when the rioters were exhausted. The damage doiU: is estimated at. (100. There were twelve deaths.