FIERCE FIGHT.
NATIONALISTS AND PROTESTANTS. POLICE ASSAILED. TWENTY-TWO CONSTABLES INJURED. Received August JB, 10.50 p.m. LONDON, August 18. A fierce fight occurred at Lurgan, a town of County Armagh, twenty miles from Belfast, a number of Nationalists attacking a Protestant band, who were returning from farewelling emigrants.* '; The rival mobs when not mutually stoning and \ smashing windows jointly assailed the police. The Riot Act was read. * The police made numerous baton charges. Twenty-two constables were injured, some sustaining broken jaws and ankles. Thirty civilians were injured.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9572, 19 August 1909, Page 5
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86FIERCE FIGHT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9572, 19 August 1909, Page 5
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