SLIGHT DISTURBANCES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 107, 6 May 1926, Page 10

SLIGHT DISTURBANCES

INCIDENTS^ IN DIFFERENT PARTS.

(Received 6th May, 2 p.m.) LONDON, sth May. Though London generally is quiet, and there is a marked absence of demonstrators, there is some uneasiness in the East End. Three instances of incendiarism are recorded. Two motorlorries and one car were burnt on the East India Dock road. The publication of the British "Gazette" caused a mild disturbance in. the Strand in the early morning, outside "The Morning Post," culminating in the arrest of a striking printer, James Mills. • The police allege that he tried to tip the motor driver out, and then went to the back wheel and tried to rip the tire with his knife, but was frustrated. Mills waa fined £2 with the alternative of three weeks' imprisonment. Instances of interference are reported, including the stoppage of non-union buses in Nottingham and Rotherham, but the Chief Constable of the latter town intervened, and effected a restoration. The district committee ignored the Trade Union Congress headquarters' orders to handle food, with the result that there is likely to be a shortage of food at Mansfield for the week-end. Nottingham is also likely to be short of meat. Military liaison officers are providing the .police with escorts for coD"oys of food wagons to all the London docks in order to frustrate interference. The Hyde Park milk distribution sehemeis in full operation, a large fleet of lorries arriving daily from the milk districts. Over a thousand vehicles aTe assembled in the Park, while infinitely more are on call in case of emergency.