MORE LIVERPOOL RIOTS.
TROOPS KNEEL TO FIRE. TRAMWAY STRIKE THREATENED. (Rcc. August 17, 10.15 p.m.) London, August 17. Further rioting has occurred at Liverpool. Tho mob smashed the windows of the tramcars, and took no notice of the display of force until the military knelt in the attitude of firing. They then hurriedly left and scattered. Assemblages were dispersed by baton cliarges in various parts of tho city. Tho tramwayinen threaten to strike today. The police have secured the services of an armoured motor-wagon. Tho brewery workers are striking owing to tlie shortago of coal. Tho Liverpool Corporation's humanised milk depots are closing, thus depriving seven hundred of tho poorest children of all sustenance. ALMOST A FOOD FAMINE.' FOOD PERMITS KSUED. • London, August 16. Food is almost at famine prices in Liverpool. A convoy of meat was escorted by military from tho docks to tho merchants. Tom Mann, in granting permits to firms and public institutions to remove bread and flour, stipulates that the carters shall be exclusively unionists. 110 also stipulates for abundance of bread for the rank and file of tho strikers and milk for children.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1209, 18 August 1911, Page 7
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188MORE LIVERPOOL RIOTS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1209, 18 August 1911, Page 7
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