TROUBLE IN WEST INDIES.
SERIOUS STRIKE RiUTS ON BRITISH ISLANDS. FATAL ENCOUNTER WITH POLICE. WARSHIP ORDERED OUT.
Received 28th, 5.8 p.m. London, April 27. Following Hie riotous coal heavers' strike at Port Castries, in the island of Saint Lucia, which the Governor ot the Windward Islands settled after a number of police and several private persons had been wounded, the sugar laborers at Roseau, the chief town in Dominica, rioted and burnt a good deal of sugar cane.
The police, while holding a cul de : .■:. at a factory against the rioters on Wed nes.lay. killed and wounded nineteen.
The Hon. R, Williams, C.lF.d., Governor of the Windward Islands, arrived and induced the attacjfers to accompany him and his secretary-to itos-an, where he quietened them anil the rest of the malcontents.
Strikers from th- Dionnery district on Thursday marched on Castries. The Riot Act was read and order maintained by the police.
Drafts are expecteu from the Barba does and Si. Vincent.
The cruiser Indefatigable has been ordered to proce'ed to Castries. A Dutch warship is in the harbor. As the rioters were again turbulent yesterday, a volunteer detachment with a Maxim was sent from the Barbadoes.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 29 April 1907, Page 3
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196TROUBLE IN WEST INDIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 29 April 1907, Page 3
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