VIOLENT N.S.W. RIOTS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 August 1911, Page 3

VIOLENT N.S.W. RIOTS

BT JSLEOTMC TELEGRAI'H--C'.ii .T.JCTn. ) H'KR i'HESS AHHOCUIAoA > (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Bay. A special train with police reinforcements was sent to Lithgow last night. Other n-ini"om>meut.s have been drafted from adjoining towns. To-day's "disturbance was apparently unpremeditated. A crowd of strikers and sympathisers accompanied by a band gathered to see tho usual change of shifts. NonUnionists came to watch the crowd and hear the band. A number of youths .started stoning i»he' -NonUivionists, and Iho crowd nwdo 'iv rush and swept away" the small force of police, who. with non-TTnioJikts. retreated to the engine-house and barred the doors. All l.lie windows w.'-re hroke.n. The police, in attempting to quieten the rioters, wore struck with missiles, and til woe poI iicemeii wore rather seriously injured. 0 thorp received minor wowids. Meanwhile the crowd went through the free labourers' rinarters and destroyed a quantity of fond and furniture and set fire io the bunks, which were thrown into a. dam. Mr TToskins' two motor cars were near-by. One was damaged, but the ohafFour n.anncid to eet away. The other ivmx r-vi fire to and destroyed. The blast furnace was also sliui off. and wliHiver it can ho re-st.nrled depends upon polieo re-iu-foroements in timo to release the. imprisoned Xtm-Fnionists, i who. at a late hour alomi: with Mr TToskins. his sotr: and soiip of the st-nflf. were still ln-ko'l in the enginoronw. Mi - a I tributes the outbreak to drunken men incitiiTv tho ernwds.