THE LIVERPOOL SITUATION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 6 August 1919, Page 7

THE LIVERPOOL SITUATION

SCENES OF ANARCHY

CONFLICT WITH SOLDIERS

(Times.) (Received Aug. 6,' 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 4. Insurances against fire loss by social -disorders have been effected at 5s ptv cent, in Liverpool. Most of the city is mow well protected, but scones of" anarchy in the centre beggar description. St. George's Hall and Square have "been converted into a great laager in which hundreds of steel helmeted. soldiers are stationed. Debris and loot litter the streets, and people push hand■caits around collecting clothes and vssois • children si* on the footpaths trying on boots, contemplating throwing ttwav misfits.

Buon charge*? have been the order of the day, the police belaboring the looters, but being unable to stem the tid©. ~ln an earlier melee a volley was nred by soldiers in a lorry, who'caught looters of a wine shop redhanded. They arrested them and were returning 'with "their prisoner* when crowds attacked iihe loTty. The troops fired over tho crowds One man was trying to seize a poldief's rifle and was snot in the ab,tiomen. \ The damage caused by the riot, s in Birkenhead is estimated at £40,000.