TROOPS ON THE MOVE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1210, 19 August 1911, Page 5

TROOPS ON THE MOVE.

14,000 ARRIVE IN LONDON OVERNIGHT. BIVOUACS IN'THE PARKS. (Kec. August 18, 10.40 p.m.) London, August 18. Stirring scenes wc-re witnessed at Aldershot and at Waterloo Station, London, over the departuro aud arrival of the troops. Two hundred cavalry and 11,000 infantry were transported to London during the night, and bivouacked in ths London parks. Three thousand men of the. Guards also arrived from Pei-bright. The Alclcrsliot Command will bo drawn upon for London., while the Southern Command vrill bo concentrated on Salisbury Plain, in readiness to proceed to the strike areas. Six hundred men of the West Yorkshire Regiment havo been dispatched to Loexls; six hundred of the Durham Regiment to Bradford; and two hundred of tho Royal Engineers have left Chatham for Liverpool. WIDESPREAD STOPPAGES. RAILWAY SERVICES SUSPENDED. . London, August' 17. Six train-loads of troops, with twelve machine guns, have been brought t'o London. Mr. Wiuston Churchill, Homo Secretary, stated in tho Ilouse that, contrary to tho agreement, sonio London lightermen had struck out of objection to non-unionists. I'ivo thousand railway men nt Lesds ' have etruck,

Many men at Blackburn, Bradford, and Leicester have also struck in tho absence of intimation of a truce, but , others await tho signal from headquarters. Trains at Manchester and Huddersfield, and on all tho Midland system between Hull and Sheffield, are suspended. Riot at Sheffield. Rioters destroyed a Midland signal-box at Sheffield, because it was used after tho signalmen struck. Tho Gordon Highlanders have arrived to protect tho railways. People at Manchester are subsisting on reserves of food. Hundreds of tho public are walking along the railways. Efforts to induce tho tramwaymen to striko failed. Three thousand troops from Aldershot have reached London. Arrangements have been made to encamp five thousand in Victoria Park. There has been fresh trouble with the London dockers, who complain of a breach of the overtime agreement. Tho Midland Railway Company offered the men who remain loyal a bonus of 50 per cent on their wages during the currency of tho strike. Twenty-one thousand military Reservists aro employed on the various railways, whom tho Government may summon to serve if required.