THE TROOPS IN READINESS

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 185, 12 August 1911, Page 5

THE TROOPS IN READINESS

ESCORTING -THE FOODSTUFFS

MR KMR HARDIES ADVICE.

(Received Aug. 11,10.55 p.m.j LONDON, Aug. 11. The troops at Aldershot are sleeping in their t clotiies. The Hussars entrained at ten o'clock, the Queen's Hays j/aiidi.the -Third Dragoons fiollowThe iloyal. Irish Rifles and the' Worcestershire Regiments at Dover are confined to^-their barracks in readiness to proceed to London. The officers on leave .have .beentrecalled. Similar .arrangements have been made with the troops at Colchester, where trains are being held an readiness. It -is understood that it is intended that foodstuffs wiH';be escorted by the troops with .fixed bayonets: from the docks. The Army Service Corps have sent 40 motor .lorries -to the docks to draw food »nd.forage, to the Aldershot, troops. . . , The Woolwich Garrison were without breakfast, v^sterday until] the troop's ♦with,fixed bayonets assisted the. contractors. ( ' j • Riotous proceeding's were witnessed and business has [been dislocated in all parts of ,London. It is estimated that 500,000 tons of, goods are detained ■■'&t the docks, ex-' elusive t>f faod and'other commodities coming'by the railways. Many lorries and motor vans were overturned in the Paddington district, where the Grreat Westesn 'Railway pickets are very 'energetic. Fifty per cent.' of the London General Motor Company's' omnibuses hajvebeen withdrawn and 1200 men thus thrown idle.

Australia^ mutton usually retailed at 3d per pound Is mow' 63. ' ' Mr Keir jHardie, speaking at Tower Hill, advised the men to make the most of having biiought .London Hearto starvation. "The masters starve you and sweat you. Pay them back in their own aoin.'"

Eleven thousand Tailwaymen are striking at Liverpool and '4000 more enforced to idleness. Two thousand carters and 6000 dockers axe boycotting the goods depots in- 1 sympathy,' and have had frequent >conflicits with the police, -who were pelted, with bricks, glass x and apples. 'Upwards of 100 baton charges were made into the mob:

There were many outrages, such as the following: One hundred strikers followed a dray laden with fowls. They smashed the crates and liberated the birds. The Lord Major of Liverpool has issued a proclamation warning the strikers that the military are available to assist the police, and. if necessaxy to .invoke the Riot Act. ■ Four hundred of the Warwickshire Regiment have arrived and also batches of police from. Leeds and Birmingham, and 200 of the Irish