COMMONS DISCUSSION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 194, 15 August 1907, Page 5

COMMONS DISCUSSION.

OFFICIAL REPORTS

SOLDIERS' GREAT PATIENCE.

STRIKERS WILLING TO ARBI-

TRATE.

LONDON, August 14.

la the Eosse o£ Cksmmoiis, the Secretary of State for Wax (Mr. B. B. Haldane) read the nrilitary reports, showing the forbearance and steadiness of tie picket of the Berkshire Kegiment on Saturday, wizen three-quarters of the .mob were women aad children, wfrile the men, 'remaining in the - rear, •fcUaxe'W paviEg-stones' -azicl , rPTta i»fsTi«i-n<: -C3-6»i»+. oa to saY that

repoxt went on to say that' th.c Middlesex Qrsgoons 031 Sunday behoved admirably, though ■ -they were mercilessly stoned at short range. ' The mob extinguished, the street lamps and placed wire ropes across the street, impeding the .cavalry. The picket on Monday was hard pressed. When the order to

fire was given seven rounds were fixed.

"Hfi-. • Ttyi an n w added that information was to the effect that

the participators in the attacks were not the strikers, lint the ".mob." The military reports showed that the riots were mainly in tha Nationalist qoarter, in Fallsroad. ''•■•*....

In the House of Commons, the Chief Secretary, for Ireland Gfir. Birrell), in answering questions, mentioned willingness of the trades unionists in Belfast ta'arbitrate. He was hopeful, he added, of an early satisfactory result. The Board of Trade had placed . two representatives at the disposal of the two parties.