NEAR STARVATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1212, 22 August 1911, Page 5

NEAR STARVATION.

SHORTAGE OF FOOD IN CITIES. ATTEMPTED TRAIN-WRECKING. London, August 20. A diabolical but unsuccessiul attempt was made to derail a mail and passenger train in Taff Vale by loosening a rail. Tho design was opportunely discovered. Strikers and miners destroyed tho rails in tho .Erewash, Valley, Derbyshire, and stopped tho Midland-Scotch express and two other trains. Troops from cleared the line. Several persons were injured by baton charges of the police in attempting to wreck a signal-box at Stafford. Strikers at York stoned the passing trains, rushed the station gates, and at tompted to wreck two trains on the lines occupied by military. Many Stations Closed. Two Dover stations have been closed and also a dozen stations in London, and tho Great Northern station at Nottingnnm. Two thousand troops have been sent to Swindon. Troops at Alderney and Guernsey have been summoned to England for strike duty. The Great Eastern Railway is unable to guarantee delivery, and has requested suspension of German shipments. Bolton and Liverpool aro within a day or two of starvation. Cardiff has only one-tenth of its usual milk supply. Margate and Ramsgate are short of provisions. 'Many visitors are. quitting those seaside resorts. immense quantities of perishable goods are at n standstill on tho Eastern coast. Owing to rioting a thousand troops have been sent to Leicester. The races at Wolverhampton bad to be postponed. An express train at King's Cross Station, London, through a mistake in signalling,' narrowly escaped collision. Riot at Chesterfield. Midland railway strikers irom Sheffield urged uie Cutsienieul men to strike, and atweieu the station on fcaturaay night. A serious coniiict ensued. Tho Riot Act was read, and the mob dispersed at tho point of the bayonet. 'imrteen persons were injured. Three hundred pasaengers were derailed at Newcastle. A bridge at Runcorn, which was set on lira in two places, has been closed. Tho Fishguard express ran through the disturbed districts with rifles pointing through tho windows. Forty racehorsss aro held up at Redcar, in iorksliire, wanting trains. The War Ufficc has ordered all troops on striko duty to return as soon as possible.