THE COLOUR LINE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13332, 22 March 1911, Page 7

THE COLOUR LINE.

NEGROES KILLED BY WHITE MEN. SOMERSET (U.S.A.), March 19. In the course of a strike resulting from the refusal of the Queen and Crescent Railroad Company to give an assurance that white firemen would have preference over negroes on a line in course of construction, there, was a serious fight between the tv.-« factious. Tlie striking firemen and the strikebreakers fought viciously, and five negroes were shot dead.

Yesterday, while engines were passing through a mountain district, four other negroes and two deptuies were killed. The officials have heen served with an ultimatum by belligerent, mountaineers, declaring that unless the negroes are all discharged they will be killed and the company's bridges blown up.

The officials have been served with an ultimatum by belligerent, mountaineers, declaring that unless the negroes are all discharged they will be killed and the company’s bridges blown up.