THE NAVAL MUTINY.
FRESH RIOT AT PORTSMOUTH. STOKERS LIKE MADMEN. DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. ASSAULTS ON OFFICERS AND POLICE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 5.13 a.m.) LONDON, November 6. The trouble -with the 300 stokers in the Naval Barracks at Portsmouth did not end so speedily or so happily as was hoped. , For a time the men seemed to have been pacified by the intervention of the Commodore, but later on a fresh disturbance broke out with increased violence.
The stokers began by smashing the officers' windows, and a riot quickly developed.
Stringent precautions were at once taken, especially in the direction of the supervision of men returning from leave, but several officers were assaulted and some policemen badly hurt.
As the situation became more serious more vigorous measures of suppression were talcen, and large bodies of armed Bailors and marines were detached for duty, and succeeded in arresting hundreds of the stokers inside the barracks.
The captured men, failing to make their escape., behaved like madmen, smashing the furniture and electric fittings.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 260, 7 November 1906, Page 5
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