PRAIRIE TOWN
LIKE A BATTLEFIELD
AFTERMATH OF RlOlj
> (Beceived Ist .October, 2 p.m.) " WINNIPEG, 30th September. The town of Stevan, Saskatchewan, with machine-guns posted at strategic points, the Koyal Canadian Mounted Police sentinels patrolling the streets, a single hospital .filled with wounded, two dead strikers in the morgue awaiting inquest, to-day resembles a battlefield. Humours of threatenedreprisal* by miners in outside centres marching on the town resulted in 50 mounted police reinforcements with tear bombs arriving from Begina. All train passengers are questioned, and three international strike leaders fled the "district. The Premier, Mr. Anderson, r* fuses to declare martial law. . ; '
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 80, 1 October 1931, Page 14
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101PRAIRIE TOWN Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 80, 1 October 1931, Page 14
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