TROOPS FIRE IN LIVERPOOL
GENERAL STRIKE PROPOSED.
(PUBLISHED IN THE HUES.)
JLONDON, 3rd August. Conflicts occurred between mobs and soldiers at Liverpool, the troops firing vojieys overhead. / One man was shot in 'the stdfimch. Two thousand reinforcements have arrived.
A meeting of unionists resolved on a general strike in sympathy with the police, , Liverpool is now strongly guarded with' machine-guns and tanks.. ' (AESTaALIiit-NXW ZJSALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION LONDON, 2nd August.
. Fqrty shops were looted in Liverpool, ■^including jewellers and pawnbrokers. The streets were strewn with wreckkage. Special constables wore enrolled in large numbers. All the strikers were dismissed.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 30, 5 August 1919, Page 7
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