EXCITING DIVERSION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1911, 20 November 1913, Page 8

EXCITING DIVERSION.

b One of the most exciting diversions t Mow occasionally practised by the f strikers is to hurl some epithet at a s speeinj constable and then dodge into a - building. It is not so popular as it \ was a fortnight ago, but, then, ©very • game has its little day. Why the i strikers have got "cold feet" with rce spcet to this comparatively innocent 'recreation was illustrated about mide day yestci'day i« thn 'Jiost Office Square. ', Listlessly, in the hot nouii-tiino sun, a p tln?!iVn specials paced iOUnVi thn sppiarp, tidiroeting lte> pop.utwe to keep to the

footpath, Ofio sly individual, however, t:lioupLit- that lie would stir up the beehive. After the little troop had passed on lie called out the ©hanninj; greeting: "You dirty scabs!" Lik« lightning the troop wheeled round, all listlessness departed, and cwio swung his horse right on to the pave*rnent. The talker, chicling the baton, dashed into the Queen's Chambers, and made for the office of the Waterside Workers! Union. In a flash the trooper j had dismounted, chased his man in, and-hauled him out, every ounce of fight (if the inciter over had any) as absent as last winter's' snows, Ho Was handed over to a.policeman, who bundled him off to the Coutral Police. Station, where lie gave the name of Albert Shrave.