RIOT AT DUNDEE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143675, 20 December 1911, Page 3

RIOT AT DUNDEE.

MXEIPAE.Y ASKED FOE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright (Received Dec. 20, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, Dee. 19. There was hand-to-hand fighting at Dundee between workers and striking dockers and carters. The police, though reinforced from Glasgow and Edinburgh, were unable to control the rioters who were joined by the mill workers, the latter being unemployed owing to the stoppage of the cartage of coal and jute. The strikers threw a lorry into the dock. The police made baton charges, several strikers being wounded. The Lord.Pro-vost asked tho Government for three hundred troops.