 In the early 20th century, pogroms broke out elsewhere in the world as well.In 1904 in Ireland, the Limerick boycott caused several Jewish families to leave the town.During the 1911 Tredegar riot in Wales, Jewish homes and businesses were looted and burned over the period of a week, before the British Army was called in by then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill, who described the riot as a "pogrom".