WOOLWICH ARSENAL EMPLOYEES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8795, 24 April 1907, Page 2

WOOLWICH ARSENAL EMPLOYEES.

Press Association —Copyright.

|Londok, April 23.

Eight thousand Government employees in Woolwich arsenal marched within a mila or Parliament House amid cordial sympathetic cheers, and sent a deputation to Government to urge reasons against the continuance of discharge. SirH. Campbell-Ban-norman expressed sympathy with the workers in what Government considered a painful necessity. Mr Haldaao concurred, plaining fcho necessity of reducing Woolwich expenditure below the inflation of former war figures to the minimum now approaching. Lord Tweedmouth promised all help tho Admiralty could give. The dopntafcion returned despondent. HELD FOR RANSOM. Press Association—Copyright. LoNpoN, April 23, The captors of Bobert Abbott, a British merchant in Salonica, demand £24,000 for his ransom,