Serious Race Riot
OVER FIFTY KILLED. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 1. At Sulva, Oklahoma, race rioting broke out following the arrest of a negro charged with attacking a white girl. The local authorities lost control of the situation, and State troops are being rushed to "the scene. Seven whites agd fifty negroes are dead and fifteen whites, and seventy-five negroes wounded in the riots. Troops rounded up three thousand blacks, mostly armed. Two hundred negroes attempting to deliver a negro from gaol, started the riot. The whites set fire to negro homes and the flumes spread, threatening The town. Martial law lias been deola ltd.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1921, Page 3
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115Serious Race Riot Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1921, Page 3
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