WILD STRIKERS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1910, Page 3

WILD STRIKERS

POLICE CHARGE WITH DRAWN

HAIiU ES

CIIUROTI "WRECKED

FORTY CONSTABLES T.\.I("RED

[by ELECTRIC TKLIiGI'APII—COI'YIt IGIIT.] [PEU PKKSS ASSOCIATION.] ISI']RLIX, Sep!cinbei* 28. police, in protecting the nonUiuojiists imported lo replace the str.ikors in the engineering works, came into conllict with the strikers, whom they charged. The\ used sabres and revolvers. Fift'v were seriously, and eighty slightlv, injured.

Major Klein ordered the police to charge with drawn sabres. The mob .smashed the street lamps and the windows of (lie bettor houses, and stormed the Church of the Reformation, brokt its windows, and. demolished the interior. The jwliee were helpless, i,,,,: thirty-eight wore wounded. LATEST NT.WS. lIOWLTXG MOT? SCATTERS POLICE. MA.\ .VXD "WOMAN" BEVTEX TO I) EAT 17. (Received This Day, 10..'if) ,-i.m.') HER,TJX. September 28. A painful feature of the rioh as the excesses committed hv yo-ng girls and the worsf ,-lass of H.nin fomnlos. T':e p.,];,,, stale dial (lie riofers attacked all decently p^ o . pi:> and in a ii', looted spirit stores. A bowl!- g mob scattered (he police. and two constables hid undo) • n l»eJ ni a, beershop. I e crowd demolished the in(p----17, nnd heat the inn-keeper and his f to death. One policeman fired into the mob until I pis ammunition was oxhaus!ed, and lie was afterwards discovered -desperately wounded. The majority of the riale-'s w >re artisms of the better class.