TROOPS SIT DOWN ON QUAY
Reeehed WeJnesilav, i ]>.in. hOXDll.X. Dee. 18. Troops suiling in the Eastern Prinee for the Kar llast. deinonstrated hefore the liner left Glasgow, says the Daily Telegraph. Four hundred enibarking troojis part ieipated in a sit down strike on the (jtiay. The X-atioual Anthem was hooed by ihe soldiers tilioiird sliip and seven soldiers who tried to ualk ashore were arrested tifter a st ni^lo on the gangway with military police. Five regular soldiers who eonijdained that they liad not received their 2S days ' end-ot'-war leave, were taken olf. The sit down sinkers were eventuaily persnaded to Imard the ship. The tronlde begun when a train earrving a draft fi 1111 Sonthanijiton arrixed. Chalked on the windows were " We want t'hristmas at home," and "W'ut, no ('hrislnias leave ' 1 .Men of the First Battalion, Royal Bcrkshire lleginieul, staVmnod near Hanover, refn-ed the elianee of (,'hristnias leave in Lnglaad lieeause they liad arranged a party for 40(1 German kiddies, says the Paily Mai!
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 December 1946, Page 5
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