PITCHED BATTLE
POUCiHT IN COLORADO STRIKERS & VIGILANTES. TROOPS ORDERED OUT. Sy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 3. A report from Kremling (Colorado) states that two motorised companies of infantry, with tanks and artillery, arrived at dawn after the Governor had declared martial law, following upon a pitched battle, in which 400 strikers at the Green Mountain Dam and 350 nen-stl'ikers and vigilantes exchanged a hundred shots. There is an undetermined number of wounded. A bridge on the highway has been dynamited and the telephone line destroyed, cutting off communication, but it is reported that fighting is continuing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1939, Page 5
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102PITCHED BATTLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1939, Page 5
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