SOUTH AFRICA.
FURTHER RIOTS. i DESPERATE FIGHT WITH POLICE. By Telegraph. l'ress Assn.—Copyright. Capetown, Uct. 24. The rioting at Port Elizabeth was a climax to the propaganda of a Native organisation which had been proceeding •for some weeto. kt started with a demand for 10s (id as the daily wage for Native males and 7s ud for females. Responsible Native opinion was opposed to the propaganda methods. Firing upon the rioters commenced without command by men who were hemmed in the police station by a howling mob, and, as they believed, the position was desperate. After a desperate fight at the police station at Port Elizabeth, the Natives were driven from the city. They then held meetings at their locations and subsequently attacked the power station. The police fired over their heads but this failed to stop them, and the police then fired into the crowd of Natives, killing one and wounding seven. An attempt was made to set fire to a petrol store, containing 70,000 cases, but failed. Rioters cut telegraph and telephone wires. Police and other reinforcements have been sent from Grahamstown and elsewhere. 'The Natives are holdiug a meeting to-day, but there were no attempts at violence. The total casualties are 21 killed and 41 woulnded, (including many women,, and one European male killed and two females wounded.—Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1920, Page 6
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