MR TILLETT'S PRAYER.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13480, 27 July 1912, Page 5

MR TILLETT'S PRAYER.

NOT AN INCITEMENT TO

VIOLENCE,

.GENERAL STRIKE AGITATION

London, July 24

Commenting on the strikers' prayer to God to strike Lord Devonport dead, the "Daily News" states that Mr Gosling, Mr Orbell and other responsible leaders cannot clear themselves of the stigma of yesterday's outrage except by complete and final dissociation from Mr Ben Tillett. The "Pair Mall Gazette-" says that Mr Tillett's prayer was regrettable in the extreme, but adds : "Let us be fair. Lord Devonport's remarks about forcing the strikers to lick the dust was <o abominable and inflammatory as to explain any retort." ! Strikers at Tower Hill to-day proposed to march to Lord Dovonport's residence, but the leaders dissuaded (them. 1 Mr McKenna, in the House of Commons, said that the Government was advised that Mr Tillett's language did not render him liable for incitement to violence, nor could Mr Havelock Wilson and others bo prosecuted for conspiracy or attempting to organise a general strike. Non-unionists are. replacing strikers at Birkenhead.