POLICE ATTACKED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 May 1926, Page 7

POLICE ATTACKED.

CONFLICT AT EDINBURGH. MANY CASUALTIES REPORTED PROGRESS OF THE STRIKE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 2.35 p.m. to-day. LONDON, May G. A conflict occurred late last night at Edinburgh, between a big crowd and the police, at which, bottles and stones were thrown. Windows were smashed and the contents looted. _ Five constables and a. number of civilians were taken to hospital. A police sergeant was slashed in the back with a razor. A mounted constable’s horse took fright, bolted, and collided with a railing. The horse was killed and the rider severely injured. Five arrests were made.

It can be authoritatively stated there is no likelihood of .the strike impeding overseas cable communications.

Emergency services are rapidly improving in all directions, and a great increase is reported in the passenger trains on the main and local lines. The trunk lines are now running three hundred to four hundred trains daily. The London tubes are reopening today . Government reports state that, speaking generally, there is no shortage of food. Apparently there has been little effort made to raise prices. No difficulty in obtaining drivers for transport is anticipated by the civil commissioners. In some cases where there was a difficulty in moving supplies- the Trade Union Congress permitted 1 volunteer workers to remove goods. There has been strong intimidation in the- eastern district, preventing some movement of foodstuffs. Between seventy and eighty London omnibuses did not return to the depots at scheduled time last night, owing to damage of various parts, but fifty more belonging to the General Omnibus Company were operating today. Lorries to London from Southampton- were turned back by pickets. —Renter. Received 2.50 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Alay 6. Three men who were arrested at last night’s disturbances at Edinburgh were sent to prison for a month or were fined. —RReuter. SUPPORT FRO A! AUSTRALIA. Received 12.15 p.m. to-day. SYDNEY, Alay 7. At a meeting of the New, South Wales Trades and Labour Council, it was decided to assist in every way possible the strike of British ccal miners. It Was .also- resolved that the local lumpers, seamen and miners .should not handle any coal which they considered was to be exported to Britain. ' DEMAND REFUSED. TO GALL OFF GENERAL STRIKE. UNGONDITTONAiL NEIG OTLATTONS WANTED. Received 1 p.m. to-day. LONDON, May 6. The Trlaid.es Union Congress Council issued -a .statement refusing unqualifiedly the Prime' Minister’s, the Rt H;onV Stanley. Baldwin, demand thatit call off the-' .general strike- before the resumption of negotiations. The. council reiterated that iit is still willing to resume .negotiations unconditionally.

PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPERS.

MANY BEING PUBLISHED

Rlecelved 2.15 <p.m. to-dav. LONDON, May 0

Twenty-two provincial evening papers published, their usual editions, thirty published emergency editions and eight exhibited news-, notices. • The Glasgow papers issued, joint editions. —Reuter.

SOLIDARITY OF WORKERS

STILL. MAINTAINED

TRADE UNION. CONGRESS REPORT Received 2.35 p.m. to-dav. LONDON, May 6. The Council of the Trade Union Congress reports to-day that, the solidarity of the workers -was maintained, throughout the .country. It. denies that the foo-d .supplies, had been, held up ; on the contrary the council's. orders in regard to. milk land foodstuffs generally have been, loyally obeyed.—Renter. RIOTERS IMPRISON ED. Received 2.35 p.m. to-day. LONDON, May 15. Terms of imprisonment varying fiom a week to six months wore imposed at Old Street Police Court .arising cut of strike scenes at. Shoreditch and Bethnal Gren, including assaults on the police.—Renter. COMMUNIST MEMBER IMPRISONED. CASE AGAINST MR. SAKLATVALA. Received 2.50'P.m, to-dav. LONDON. May 0. Dir Saklatvala appeared .at Bow Street Court, He refused to find two sureties, and was sentenced to- two months’ imprisonment. His counsel tokl the magistrate that the accused had. decided to- conduct his own defence. Mr'Saklatvala. aclmitto 'i the fairness and accuracy of the police report of his -speech, and said that his trial was intended for the public good. He did not regard it as a. personal prosecution. He considered that in view of the present. political outlook he should not be bound over any more than the Prime Minister for the Prime Minister’s speech against a section of the community.

The magistrate declared that a reasonable man could not doubt that Mr Saklatvala’s speech, was most seditious. — Reuter.