ATLANTIC LINERS HELD UP.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 13 June 1919, Page 5

ATLANTIC LINERS HELD UP.

SERIOUS RIOTS AT WINNIPEG

AND MALTA

MUCH UNREST IN FRANCE,

TROOPS. USED TO RESTORE

ORDER.

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT

LONDON, June 12. All the North Altantic liners engaged in repatriating Canadian troops, are held up in the Mersey owing to the /Owners refusing to pay overtime to the! stewards attending the ships' officers, while in Canadian and American ports, j VANCOUVER, June 11. A serious riot occurred in Winnipeg, owing to the general strike. A mob, attacked the veterans, who were acting i as special police, one man, the winner | of a Victoria Cross in the war, being' seriously injured PARIS, June 5. j General labor unrest in France is growing. There are half a million strikers in the country, of whom two hundred thousand are metal workers in the Paris region. The underground railways of Paris are closed. LONDON, June 10. Serious riots are reported at Malta, owing to the high food prices and unemployment. The troops charged the ""*. unarmed using bayonets and firing several shots. The rioters destroyed the Malta Daily Chronicle's offices. Marines have been landed to check j looting, and it is believed that orderl has 'been restored. I