WHITE V. BLACK

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 230, 23 June 1920, Page 7

WHITE V. BLACK

-—« ' • SERIOUS CONFLICT AT HULL. . ,' London, June 20. As the result of a serious conflict between white and black sailors at Hull, the contents of five houses were completely -wrecked and sixteen men were sent to hospital. The trouble was due to the increasing numbers of blacks seen in the company of white women. Two blacks were arrested.—Reuter.

TLaSt year there were many clashes between whites and blacks, principally sailors, in the ports of Great Britain, the usual causo being the increasing number of white women associating with coloured men. In June a white man was killed at Cardiff, and six Arabs were charged 'with creating disturbances. The rioting continued, a negro and a white man were killed and several injured, and fifteen coloured men, four white men, and one white woman were charged. Outbreaks ocourred about the same time at Liverpool, as the result of which it was decided to intern coloured men until they could be repatriated. At the middle of June fifty persons were awaiting trial at Liverpool in connection with riots. Riots also occurred in the East End of London, many being injured, while in Juno twenty-seven coloured men and three white' men were charged at Newport with rioting and assaulting the police. ; Ultimately, in September, 600black men were repatriated, and since then little mo.re lias been heard of rioting of this description.]