LIVES LOST
I OVER AN EVICTION. . United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ] CHICAGO, August 3. In a clash between the police and a mob of five thousand, led by Communists, three negroes were fatally shot, and several others were seriously wounded. The trouble was precipitated when Communists, objecting to the eviction of a woman, started moving the furniture back inlo her home. Then detectives arrested these Communists, they setting off a spirit of anarchy. Masses swept 'forward against the detectives, who summoned police reserves. Some in the crowd are reported to have used revolvers, knives and rr;:ars. Eventually the police, using clubs and pistols forced the mob to retreat, leaving behind three dead.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1931, Page 2
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