RIOTING AT GUADELOUPE.
EIGHT KILLED AND TWENTYFIVE injured; (Rec. Last Night, 11.10 o'clock.) GUADELOUPE ISLAND, Oct. 18. Five men and three women have been killed and twenty-five persons injured in election riots at Basseterre, the capital of the French dependency of Guadeloupe. The gendarmes fired upon the crowd and put down the rioting. Guadeloupe is a * rench colony ■ in the West Indies, and consists of two islands, Basseterre and Grandeterre, separated by a narrow salt-water river, with five smaller dependent islands, all situated in the Leeward group of the Lesser Antilles. Capital is Basse-Terrc (population 8626), and the chief town, Pointe-a-Pitre (population 18,942). Products are sugar, rum, coffee, cotton, cocoa, bananas, etc. The colony is represented at Paris by A senator and two deputies, and has an area of about 680 square miles, and a total population of 190,273. It is administered by a Governor with an elected Council.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10122, 19 October 1910, Page 5
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149RIOTING AT GUADELOUPE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10122, 19 October 1910, Page 5
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