Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-12 | Page 3 | Newport News Trouble

Newport News Trouble. NEWPORT NEWS. Va.. Nov. II. Riotous scenes attended the celebration here tonight of peace. Thousands of soldiers sol-diers and sailors took possession of the city, wrecking street cars, raiding restaurants, res-taurants, breaking plate glass windows and building bonfires in the streets from smashed deliver!' wagons and other wreckage. No casualties were reported. The city's car service was demoralized city's street car service was demoralized by the celebration, the soldiers and sailors taking charge of, the cars after driving away the crews. Alleged unreasonable prices for food were said to have been responsible for the raids on restaurants. Foodstuffs were carried off and considerable consid-erable property damaged. The soldiers engaging in the demonstration demonstra-tion were from the several embarkation camps In this city and vicinity. After the mobs had forced suspension of street car service, the closing of every business place on the principal streets and had done thousands of dollars damage, dam-age, two companies of guard troops were ordered out and at midnight they were patroling the streets. The troops have the situation under control. A number of people were slightly huit. Major Percy Hamilton, who attempted to remonstrate with the rioters, was struck by a brick thrown by a sailor. A number num-ber of arrests have been made.