CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]
THE PORTSMOUTH RIOTS.
LARGE NUMBER OF STOKERS ARRESTED. CAUSE OF THE DEMONSTRATION. IPRKSS ASSOCIATION.! LONDON, 7th November. Nearly nine hundred stokers in the Portsmouth barracks were concerned in tho recent disturbances. Four hundred ' have been drafted into &hips. Thirty of the riugjeadeis are now in custody. Men on leave complain that they were locked out, and had no lodgings to go to. They declare the demonstrations outside tho barracks were merely a demand for admission. AN UNPOPULAR LIEUTENANT. THE MEN'S GRIEVANCES. (Received November 8, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 7th November. Affairs at the Portsmouth bairacks are quiet. The stokers state that the lieutenant who Qidercd them to go on their knees is unpopular. He had already lost half a year's seniority. The men complain of the dead set made aguii st them by the executive offipers>, who tmitcd them as boys.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 112, 8 November 1906, Page 7
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145CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] THE PORTSMOUTH RIOTS. Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 112, 8 November 1906, Page 7
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