PEACE DAY RIOTS.
MOBS RAID COVENTRY. SINN FEIN AND POLICE. LON]SON, July 21_ The mob during the peace celebra{ions at COVelltry,roselltillg police control, got ‘out. of hand, and, armed with bricks and stones, smashedzz scores of shop windows in the business centre. Some stores were looted. ‘ A V
The Stai-’s cerrespondent at Cork states that the‘ Sinn Feiners attacked pedesiti-ians and soldiers carrying loyalist‘ emblems. -Some sgidiers were brutally mauled. ' There were night-long skirmishes, in which Sinn Feiners shot aft“ police with revolvers. One constable‘ was shot in the thigh_ The police at first used their batons and later their revoivers, and eventually dispersed the rioters. '
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Taihape Daily Times, 15 August 1919, Page 5
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