TELEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 May 1915, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

[PXR PRBBB ASSOCIATION.! RIOT'S IN WANGANUI. ■e-.<\ "Wanganui, May 16. Riotous' scenes were Witnessed in the „ streets last night, the storm centre being a pork butcher's shop occupied by a naturalised German, U. Heinold. Shortly after eight o'clock stones were thrown through ihte window and nn excited mob surged round when tho police tried to affect an arrest. Ry 10 o'clock a crowd of several thousand ■were in the vicinity ""and feeling was running high. A series of ugly rushPS were overpowered by tne police, but the plate glass -windows were smashed by a fusillade of stones. The Mayor tried to address the crowd, but was howled down. During the riot the plate glass windows of the Melbourne Company's drapery premises adjoining wore also Bmashed. By 11 o'clock Heinold's windows in both the upstairs portion and the shop had been completely wrecked. At Hallenstein 8r05... a three-store'y building, all the windows were smashed, and two windows in the Bristol Piano Co.'s premises were broken. During the otone-tTlrowing the Mayor, who was bleeding from a stone wound in the face, again addressed the crowd and urged them not to disgrace the town "and to be British. Heinold's shop was looted, not an ' article remaining. Hams, sausages, and other goods were stolen.