MINERS BATTLES
FURTHER, PARTICULARS. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this d iy at 10.30 a.m.l VANCOUVER, September 30. A message from Estevan (Saskatchewan) states:—With machine guns posted at strategic points Royal Canadian Mounted Police sentinals are patrolling a single hospital filled with wounded. Two dead strikers in a morgue are awaiting an inqnest. The town to-day resembles a battlefield. Rumours of threatened reprisals by miners from outside centres marching on town resulted in fifty mounted police reinforcements with tear bombs arriving from Regina. All train passengers were questioned. Three international strike leaders fled from | the district. ' Premier Anderson refuses to declare | martial law.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1931, Page 5
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