SERIOUS RIOT IN LONDON.
UNEMPLOYED RAID ON" TIMBER
YARD
A HUGE CONFLAGRATION
Elec. Tel. Copyrltfbt—tJntted Press Assn Australia!' -ml N.Z. futile Association
(Received Aug. 9, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 8
Serious rioting occurred at Glikslen's timber yard, East London, the largest timber yard in England.
Eive thousand unemployed, many of whom waited all night long, came in response to an advertisement, for fifty. They were so angered at failure to secure work that they broke the gates and raided the offices. Police and mounted men were summoned from the surrounding stations until they -were five hundred strong. They forced the men out of the gate*;', but it was some hours before the riot was quelled. Later the yard caught fire and stocks worth millions' of pounds sterling arc threatened with total destruction. The yard covers twenty-one acres, which are a blazing inferno.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15593, 9 August 1921, Page 3
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