Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-07
Military is Summoned to Stop
Looting of JeweIry and
Clothing Storesi London Re-
mains Comparatively Quiet,
WALK0UT At END, SAYS
METROPOLITAN CHIEF
Public Fears That Indifference
of Those on Duty Means
That Trouble Has Not Yet
Been Entirely 0bIiterated,
copyright, 1919. by the Press Pub
fishing Co.
(The New York Worldly
Especial Gable DispatchD


London, Aug. 6.-"The lightning
strike of the police in Liverpool was
seized upon by violent crowds, largely
composed of hoolians, to wreck and
plunder shops. The few Liverpool
policemen who remained loyal
charged with their clubs. and num-
bers of people were caught In various
shops and received severe punish
ment
In the whole of Scotland Road
scarcely shop was left intact, their
windows were broken and all their
contents were carried away. One
jewelry establishment was ransacked
from top to bottom. BoNtshops were
entirely cleared of their stocks.
Scarcely any of the real strikers were
involved in the rioting.
At an early hour this morning tho
military was summoned to suppress
the rioting, as only some fifty police
men remained on duty. 1t is under
stood here that never in the history
of Liverpool have Its principal thor
oughfares presented such scenes of
wreck as at the present moment.
Little Response in London.
The strike ordered by the London
Police union on Thursday night mpt
WIN Dul lltllS .TGSpOilSe. IHe IuHuUH
Metropolitan force numbers between
900 and $4,000, and of these only
500 men had failed to parade for duty
by last evening. But Ss soon as the
news that the strike was called off
spread, there was an outbreak of loot
ing by hoolians in the Old Kent Road
district. A numbe" of sh ps were en-
tered and rifled in the early hours OF
yesterday.
In the cit, of Los don force, very
few men were affected, aGd it was re-
ported that the policemen throughout
the country are remaining on duty
except in Liverpool. The strikers
have already been dismissed from the
Metropolitan force here. and it is an
nounced that the government will not
weaken in dealing with the strikers
anywhere. In the house of commons
today the home secretary announced
that( according to the Information ct
his disposal, the strike has failed
completely.
Believed at an End.
While the police strike leaders still
declare it is fight to the finish, Sir
Nevil MacCready, police head, states
this evening confidentially that the
police strike Is finished There is a
discrepancy in the OFFICIAL flgures Oh
the number of strikers, which IL
placed at 1919 men throughout the
whole country. and the claims of the
Police union leaders who state that ur
to last night 5000 struck in London
alone.
There Is serious situation in Liv.
erpool, where 700 are on strike
Nearly 1000 troops equipped with
rifles and fixed bayonets. and wear
! ing steel helmets are patrolling the
streets where thousands of dollars
worth of jewelry and other articles
were looted from a number of shops
broken into by hoodlums.
| Many police were in London streets
today, although at their post they
were listlessly carrying out theif
| duties which gives rise to uneasiness
| that all traces of police trouble will
not be obliterated even If the strike
proves total fiasco