SERIOUS RESULTS IN HULL.
SCARCITY OP SUPPLIES. LONDON. June 29. (Received June 30, at 0.10 a.m.) The districts around Hull are suffering owing to tho scarcity of supplies and rising prices. Two hundred thousand qufiters of grain cannot be unloaded, and most of the grain warehouses in tho North of England are empty. The oil mills are on the verge of stoppage, and work has been stopped in several collieries. The-dtuation at Hull is threatening, the whole of the working population being involved. Detachments of the Sheffield and Birmingham police have been drafted to Hull, charged with truncheons.
A section of a mob 10,000 strong is perambulating tho city, calling on the mill hands to cease, work and help to paralyse the trade of the port.
A number of creosote works and timber mills have boai forced to 6top.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19110630.2.46
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 15183, 30 June 1911, Page 5
Word Count
139SERIOUS RESULTS IN HULL. Otago Daily Times, Issue 15183, 30 June 1911, Page 5
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in