RED RIOT.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13479, 26 July 1912, Page 5

RED RIOT.

PRAYER FOR LORD DEVONPORT'S

DEATH

THE DOCKS RUSHED

FIBRE SET ON FIRE

London, July 24

Mr Ben Tillett, at Tower Hill, called on tho strikers to join him in prayer to God to strike Lord Devonport dead.

Tho majority repeated tho wl.ich were followed by tho words: "He shall die!"

words, further

Fifty strikers rushed tho London docks before the gates could bo closed. They attacked tho wharves and set nixto a waggon load of fibre.

Tho police outside charged a mob oi 2000, who attempted to enter and assai! non-unionists.

Twenty-five rioters had afterwards to be treated at tho hospital for wounds.

Mr Havelock Wilson is endeavouring to procure a general strike of transporters in the provinces. ,