POLICE STATION WRECKED
RIOT IN STAFFORDSHIRE.
SEQUEL TO AN ALTERCATION.
Pree» Association—By Telegraph—Copjiight. LONDON, July 22 (Received July 23, at 10.20 p.m.) • A riot took place at Bilston in Stafiordshire, following ail altercation between soldiers and policemen. A mob, with improvised battering rams, "wrecked the police station, Th.e police stoutly defended the station until reinforcements arrived, and then, "using their truncheons, they dispersed the crowd A and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17685, 24 July 1919, Page 5
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