THE SITUATION IN LIVERPOOL.
DISORDERS AND OUTRAGES
Conditions at Liverpool are rapidly becoming worse. Detachments of the Warwickshire Regiment and 200 Irish constabulary have arrived. There were riotous scenes at the Central Station The strike situation in Liverpool is threatening. Pickets prevent goods leaving the docks and railway depots The goods service of the district is held
up, and the passenger service is dislocated.
There have been numerous disorders and outrages, including the overturning of a brewer's dray, knocking in the bungs, and distributing the beer to the mob. ;
The' Lord Mayor and the Chief Constable of Liverpool have conferred with prominent leaders, of the strikers, with a view to possible action in preserving the peace and obviating the necessity of utilising outside forces, , „
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8444, 11 August 1911, Page 5
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