AMERICAN STRIKE RIOTS

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 217, 23 September 1916, Page 6

AMERICAN STRIKE RIOTS

ORCANTSED ATTACKING BANDS

67tX) POI.iCE ON DUTY

SERIOUS OUTRAGES FEARED '■'Febss Association.]

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

Sept. 22, 1 35 0.m.) NF,W YO«K. Sept. 22. Serious rioting i.s taking place amOi'gst tlio st'-ikors, who are forming, flying bands for stoning the cars, with the purpose of frightening the passi'Migors, and attacking the tnotpiv men. Gangs are using the Central i?ark as a rendezvous/for ambushing. lij> is cojitiguous to :Eigiith Aven-ue r«tul Fifty : nitith Street lines.

Six ''thousand seven hundred police r.re:now on;-strike duty. One huiidf.:d motor-oars and 100 jitytor-cyolos carrying detectives are constantly pji trolling the disturbed districts. There have been a number of coliisiAns betwertt the police and the (strikers."' Captain Dempsey, commanding the Etgl'.th' Avennn police, had his skn?.l cracked by a brick. The Public Prosecutor threatened to prosecute tho strikers fov throwing -ni&siles, under a law carrying five to twenty years' penalty.

Both sides now beliAve that the strike has reavhed its climax. Serious ontruges are- feared. It is iot believed that a genernl .sympathetic strike will be called.

The N.Z. I;oan s ar.d Mercantile Agency Company report a full clearance, at' satisfactory. prices, of the catalogue of buildings, railway rails, and sundries, which they offered on behalf of the Spring Creek River .board ■ at' tho Peniasula ?iist Wednesday. \ . The Marlborough Acclimatisa.tion Society ar« in receipt of advice from the Miir'stoi1 for Marine that he has given instructions for Mr Ay son, Chief Inspector 01 Fisheries, to visit Marlbor->ugh as early pis possible to confer with, the- Society on the matter of stocking the Wairau River with quinriat sain.on. ■