RIOTOUS NAVAL STOKERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81884, 8 November 1906, Page 3

RIOTOUS NAVAL STOKERS.

OUTBREAK. Ai i'OKTSMOLTII. London, .Novembei 0. The nokcrs again no>ed at Burtsmcuth. 1 hey sinas-ied the oliicei 3 win do\\s. Tlw ;ioi was followed by stringent precautions especially sup rv.sion ul men return.ng 110 m leave. Several officers wc-c and :umv police uiui bad.y hurt. Large oi armed sa.loi's and marines succ-eued in arresting a bundled inside the barrack-. laibng to escape, the st«kcrs behaved IIK.O madmen, smashing the turn.hire and c ectric hu ngs. .An oltieer kept the nieu on parade unnecessarily long during a deluging rainworm, and tae in' n at Urt bolted ■u- shelter wuheut awai-ing sal. Tji<! othcer ordered a pavade in the gymnasium, and h<ar ng in~"-t irg remarks from the stokers directed the tiont rank to kneel, in older to tiic rear ranks. The men retused, and when the order was repeated knelt except two. One declared lie would, b-nd his knee to God a one-.

,-\:ht .hi aii'-iiiyi t'> quit batiack-i had bcuu 11 u - 1 1 .ttcii Ciuuuiudori: SU'l>furd Uic cr:, uiid aiur iiiqu.iy ai)noun<-cd inai th-' inatii-T had uroppud.

(Tlie stokeis, in tue titst plate misimcrprciea an cu.tr, but an vwpiaiiaL un by Uk Cummuuoiu had i.iu ul it-ti of quiciining thing-.. However, ihtrc iiaa appaicmiy ljv«n a icciudisttnie u£ ihc tiuublu.)

RI.NGLEADE RS ARRESTEU. DEMONSTRATORS' EXi'I.AXA TIO.VS. Rcct'Kvd Sih, i-.4J a.in. L'-nd n, Nuvi'mlitr 7Tlvrt v ' iii' .aly liint- liundrod =toke:3 in tilt ban.:tk~ ti<nc< uicd m Il:c ictcn' d-iutbaw-i. l-'our huncti' d li.i-.-* bca (.li;:[','-d imo i;11d thirty «t '.n 1 -' niiiilcad' r s arc in :i;dy. The wn nil '.'.ivf tniupt.i n - l>c.k<d uui, wi'ii<>ul l"dt r ng>. .uhl dit'ai'* tnt: d'lnnii--t-ati'jns uut-idL «a- mere y a (b-maiul :>>r admi=>ion.