Riotous scenes without parallel in a South Wales Coalfield were enacted last night in mid-Rhondda and at Aberaman. At both places, the police and the mob were in fierce conflict for many hours, charge after charge being made by the constabulary upon the infuriated crowd. In the mid-Rhondda alone over a hundred casualties were reported, injured strikers being conveyed to local surgeries for treatment. There were 60 casualties at Aberaman., and both there and in mid-Rhondda many members of the police force were struck by huge missiles, not a few sustaining injury.

In the mid-Rhondda district the first outbreak of disorder took place in the afternoon at Tonypandy and Llwynypia. A mob of young men were charged by the police who, using their batons, drove them off, leaving six on the highway injured. These as quickly as possible received first aid, and were subsequently removed home. Later in the evening there were grave developments at Tonypandy. Time after time police and strikers came into serious conflicts, and the riots that ensued were the most serious witnessed within living memory in the coalfield. First the strikers, repeating the demonstration of Monday night, attacked with showers of stone within the Power Station of the Glamorgan Colliery. Repulsed by the police after a sanguinary baton charge, the strikers, reinforced, returned again to the attack, and were once again charged by mounted police, dozens being rendered prostrate by blows from police batons. Later the strikers, forming in procession marched through the main streets of Tonypandy smashing the windows of scores of establishments on route to Penygraig and looting the contents of shop windows.

At Aberaman a combined attack was made on the Powell Duffryn washery. A mob of two thousand men joined in the assault, accompanied by a large number of women. The police were fiercely attacked, and some were seriously injured. The rioters climbed over the fencing and set fire to a quantity of straw stored in a railway wagon. Immediately there was a huge conflagration and expensive property was in imminent peril. Prompt rescue measures, however, were taken and the fire was extinguished ere much damage had been done. The mob only yielded to a series of baton charges, and the crowd rushed pell mell along the canal bank many being jostled into the canal.

Last night a troop train conveyed two squadrons of the 18^th. Hussars from Tidworth to Cardiff, where they were quartered for the night, accommodation being found for them at the Barracks, ready at any moment to proceed to the scene of operations in the affected districts. Companies of the North Lancashires and the Lancashire Fusiliers, who had started from Tidworth Barracks in company with the Hussars, remained behind at Swindon. The Hussars, it is officially reported, were drafted into South Wales at the request of the Chief Constable of Glamorganshire, who communicated through the local military authorities an appeal for the assistance of two hundred cavalry and two companies of infantry in the protection of colliery property. In the early morning a troop of Hussars travelled from Swindon through Cardiff to Pontypridd.

At the time of going to press the turmoil had subsided, and quiet was being maintained throughout the disturbed areas.