The Use of Troops.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3, 24 April 1914, Page 5

The Use of Troops.

I SERIOUS STRIKE RIOTS. | STRIKERS V. STATE MILITIA. [By Eleoteio Telegeaph—Copyright] [United PaEga Association.] Mew York, April 22. The bodies of eleven children, two women and one man have been found in the ruins of the tents at Trinidad, Colorado. A number of men and women are reported to be entombed in a burning mine. An army of four hundred strikers is facing a large force of the State .Militia, and further bloodshed is expected. There is intense excitement around the district. The strikers are largely aliens, and are determined to fight to a finish, suppression of riots WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN DAN* CER OF SUFFOCATION. Received 8.10 a.m.) New York, April 23. A mine manager near Aguilar, Colorado, telephoned that thirty women and children who took refuge at Minestore are likely to die from suffocation as the mine mouth had caved in by dynamite explosions caused by the strikers in their attacks on the State troops. KEIR HARIE'S VIEWS. SOLDIERS WITH BATONS. London, April 23. In committee on the Army Annual Bill, Mr Keir Hardie moved a new clause making it unlawful to employ troops in labor disturbances until the available police of the district have been requisitioned, and that no troops be employed except with th« consent of three magistrates of th» district. Mr Hardie urged that soldiers should be armed with batons. Mr Asquith admitted ' the importance of the clause, but the duty of assisting the civil power when the public peace was disturbed was imposed on soldiers as citizens. It was in the highest degree undesirable to question the sanctity of immemorial right to use soldiers in disturbances leading to destruction and menace of life, and exceedingly unwise to suggest that soldiers should not be armed. Several Conservatives deprecated the use of the modern rifle in suppressing riots. The chairman finally ruled Mr Keir Hardie's amendment outsida th» scope of the Bill.