50 KILLED AND 150 WOUNDED.
TERRIBLE STATE OP AFFAIRS IN WALES. FRENCH AND ITALIAN RIOTERS. 800 CHINAMEN TURNED OFF FROM WORK. I | PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. | ! Paris, August 20. ! The fight between French workers and Italian labourers in the vicinity of the mines was resumed today. Hundreds ot the latter sought refuge in a farmhouse, but the Frenchmen set to work and demolished the roof of the building. The foreigners, finding themselves | beaten, fled, but were chased, and 50 were killed and about 150 wounded. A number of Italians, who had rushed to a bakery, were saved by the troops, who had been summoned to quell the disturbance. Romf, August 20. A mob mado a hostile demonstration outside the French Embassy in consequence of tho attack on Italian labourers near Nismos. Stones wore thrown, aud hooting was mdulgod ic. Anti French demonstrations havo been renewed in Roino aud other cities. Owing to the massacro of Italian labourors at Nismr.p, there is an excitod fooling throughout Italj. London, August 21. Tho Welsh strikers pillagod tho bakeries at Forndalo last night. Tho police charged tho rioters at Polity* pridd several times, and mauy of the former were injured. Miners in Ebbw Vale.Monmouthshire, arc working on a sliding scale. The neighboring valleys desire to imitate this course. The presence of the military nnd the energy of the magistrates prevented the proposed attack on the workers at at Ebbw Valo yesterday. San Fkancisco, August 20. Tho unemployed at San Joaqmn, in California, turnod 800 Chinamen out of tho vineyards. Several of the lattor were killed, and whon the Sheriff* attempted to stop the fight tho mob turned on and defeated thorn.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 45, 22 August 1893, Page 2
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