ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS
RENEWED AT TREDEGAfI.
ENCQUNTE..S WITH THE POLICE.
ORDER RESTORED
(Received Last Night, 10.55 o'clock.)
LONDON, August 22. Further anti-Jewish riots have occurred at Tredegar. Gangs of roughs threw stones and bottle's at the. police, and a fierce fight ensued. Many were injured in baton charges, «nd a dozen were taken to the hospital. The Riot Act. was read. ■Soldiers fixed bayonets and marched through tlie principal thoroughfares. The rioters too.k refuge in the side ■streets, iwhemoe the.y stoned the military. l Many left the town and crossed the mountain into Ehbw ,Y:ale. Here several large Jewish shops were wrecked and looted. On the military arriving the plunderers hurriedly quitted the shops. The soldiers and police assembled outside the po-fce station, where the Riot Act was read. The police and military charged and cleared the streets. Another section of the same gang looted nearly every shop in Rhymney. Order was finally restored everywhere.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10401, 23 August 1911, Page 5
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154ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10401, 23 August 1911, Page 5
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