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Show LIVERPOOL IBS mm town Troops Called to Suppress Rioting and Pillage in Big British Center. (Special Cable Dispatch.) Ey Universal Service. LIVUKPOOL, Aug. S. This great port city is tonight an armed camp. Martial laws reigns in the business and industrial sections. Virtually all the workers in the city havo answered the summons of the trades unions for a general strike. The night is marked hy continual riots. Considerable Consid-erable blood has been shed. (Xew York Times Cable, Copyright.) LIVERPOOL, Aut;. 3. Liverpool Is ill the grip of HoollR.-uiism. For two nights the city ha.i been uiven over to riot and pillage. Scores of shops have been si'iasned and rifled. At one place alons the lines of docks the (sates were broken open, and the mob stormed the huge food warehouse, carrying off stocks of bacon, ham, lard, sul.-ar, rice and tinned stuffs. Larpe numbers of troops have been drafted 'into the city from adjacent military mili-tary camps, and warships are on their way to the Mersey. The soldiers are quartered in the spacious St. Georsre's hall. The vast plateau in front has been turned Into a motor park for lorr.ies and Red Cross cars. Drawn up In front are four irrlrnlooklns tanks. Soldiers with fixed hnvonets and wearlns steel helmets hel-mets nlso were posted ln a cordon around the plateau, and they ;irc also mounting Kiiard over the scenes of wreckage In the streets. Terror came to the Mersey side during the early hours of Saturday morning, when, taking advantage of the police strike, the turbulent element of cosmopolitan cosmo-politan Liverpool, which lurks In the street of a well-defined area, and which is readv for riot and plunder whenever occasion permits, sturted the work of destruction. Intermittent looting has continued in various rarts of the city throughout the day. Soldiers have been called out to protect property, but In most cases the rioters offered lio resistance and ran when the troops arrived. There hr.s been a raid on a surar factorv, and there was an amazing scene In the VatiK Hall district when the mob smashed their way into a Jieer bottling works and looted It. Men, women and boys m.ide their way Into the building and emerged loaded up with bottles of beer and stout. These were opened and consumed con-sumed in the roadway, the empty bottles being smashed on the granite streets, which wore a mass of broken glass. Other rioters came out with cases of stout and heer. which they carried nway. Barrels of heer were rolled Into the main thoroughfare and broached in the open. The crowd drank and danced ln tile road. There was n scuffle whn the troops arrived and took possession of the building, build-ing, drawing a cordon across the streets. The soldiers stood ready to take action. If the mood of the mob turned to violence. |