Police Vieiously Attacked by Crowd of Four Thousand Sydney, Dee. 16, Four thousand miners belonging to. the Rothbury Colliery viciously' attacked the police early this morning. The police: were forced to: use. their" revolvers. and: three miners were wounded, Several of the police were: injured with stones.
Wild. scenes followed the shoot ing. Groups of furious miners tepeatedly made desperate attacks on: the police and the affray lasted for twenty. minutes.
Trouble recurred Tater in °the imorning when the miners tried to force. their way into the colliery.
Mr. Baddeley, a legislator, was injured in the melee while attempting to pacify the miners.
will be recalled that following prolonged dispute in the New, South Wales coalfields a settlement: was reached on November 29, after a-conference of owners' and miners Jeaders but mass meetings of miners. ator: rejected the settlement and: decided to recommend all sections of the mining industry to extend. the dispute beyond the borders of New South Wales.
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