ANTI-NEGRO RIOTS IN ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 233, 26 June 1919, Page 7

ANTI-NEGRO RIOTS IN ENGLAND

BITTER FEELING AROUSED CONSTABLE AND TWO MEN KILLED (By Telegraph-Press Association-Oopyrtehi r (Kec. June 25, 8 p.m.) London, June 13 (delayed). The race riots at various seaports were the outcome not only of white women associating with negroes, but the resentment of ex-soldiers against coloured men holding jobs they could fill. At Liverpool a great crowd attacked one thousand negroes from (,he ships, and removed the white women from the blacks' quarter, demolishing their property. The negroes showed fight, lminy being wounded, until all wcro interned pending thcii'vdoportation. . '.■'■''■

At Cardiff the negroes freely U6ed ■ razors and revolvers. A cojistable and two other men wcro killed.- ■ Fifteen whites were sent to hospital, besides many being slightly wounded. A fierce hunt of negroes continued for'two days, : during which time tho houses were'raided and burned, and property was de-.. strayed. The polico by great exertions, \, and with tho aid of the soldiers, saved : , many negroes from a severe ■ handling. : •; At Newport tho police were compelled to ; ' make several baton charges, in which .1 seventy-two persons were injured. Thirty , negroes were arrested at Barry, where •'.• nn ex-soldier was killed. Thousands raid. , ed the negro quarter, and hunted then) all night through the town.—United Ser- ■ vice. ■ ■ . •'.