Imposing Procession of Flour-have been ken to hospital and 16 arrests were made at Hull yesterday when rioters damaged trams and buses, Police charges continued until midnight—Reuter.
Laden Lorries and Ar-
Pickets Cajoled to Work: Warning moured Cars Against Violence London, May 9.
The greatest astonishment and enthusiasm was aroused everywhere yesterday by a convoy of 104 flour-Taden lorries with an escort of 16} armoured cars, cavalry and mounted police which extended bout two miles and which marched from.
London Docks to Hyde Park from where the contents of the lorries were distributed to districts where supplies were smartest.
Two battalions of "Guards and! 500 volunteers were sent down to the docks on Friday to help load the lorries" yesterday morning. Large crowds cheered the convoy, the sight being as popular as the Lord Mayor's procession, The spirit prevailing throughout the country was exemplified at Plymouth yesterday when a football match was played between a team of strikers and a team of police, the} former winning by two goals to one, The wife of the Chief Cone stable kicked-off.
Reuter learns that the week-end @id not produce any a wards the Government 0 of the Trades Union Congress in the direction of" acceptance of the Government's decision that the general strike must be called off eforo negotiations are resumed.
The chief task of the week-end London, May 9.
Pickets outside the Portsmouth, Corporation Electricity Works yesterday endeavoured to persuade men not to go in, but they themselves were finally ¢ajoled to work.
'A prominent Communist at Doncaster named Brown, who has recently returned from Moscow, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for making a seditious speech.
The Financial Secretary to the! Treasury, in a letter to a meeting} at Canterbury, says that every day. the conflict lasts must increase the! danger of an outbreak of violence, which would have to be met by the armed forces of the Crown, the consequences of which it would be impossible to foresee.
The famous picturesque mounted] sentries of the Horse-guards at] Whitehall have been replaced by dismounted men in service dress bearing rifles, A similar change has been made the guards at Buckingham Palace.
Efforts were made yesterday to rush the London, Midland & Scottish Railway office at Crewe owing to the Railway refusing to pay the no damage was dong.—Reuter. has been to keep open the docks. 'The process which began on May with the removal, inter aria, of over' 300 lorry-lands of flour and 700 tonx of sugar is being successfully pursued,
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