FIERCE RIOTS AT CARDIFF—A WAREHOUSE FIRED AND LOOTED.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 10, 6 September 1911, Page 30

FIERCE RIOTS AT CARDIFF—A WAREHOUSE FIRED AND LOOTED.

The seamen's strike at’Cardiff underwent n !■* .1 1.1 broken ..pm an.i rolled Into the docks. The j l( ‘X tW asv? hU H.°i < i >ll fi tl, « Il,lle Do, * ks <‘»tate was tired and partly looted. Barrels of beer were tlicts with the police. Police reinforcement* gradually resulted in the strikers Ldn?r\i ?iV l,gU tr* A lO ~anies was eut strikers, and throughout the day there were serious eonpartaken freely of the looted beer, attempted to reeross the West Dork the dork premises Later on some of the more fiery of the mob, who had m.inj of whom behaved in the most reckless manner rllmbim? over meh ntiiV , ‘« 1 . ? <,ox f n p,,,,s tnbles held the bridge against a hundred half-drunken men and youths, uianuer, <Un> « < |, U s backs In <„ l |.. r t( , g ,. t <>,, t„ the parapet, heedless of the fact that a false step might send tnem headlong Into the empty dork basin thirty feet below.