Show IM I M 9 FLEES I. I HAR n I J ToPs DP I I Rioting Crowds in Liv Liverpool Run Before e I Bayonets Destroyers Will Protect Docks Dock s I I LIVERPOOL T Aug 4 Riotous Riotous I Lj crowds were driven from the I streets of this city this morning by by troops charging with fixed bayonets The rioters filled the streets during the night and it was I not until daybreak that the soldiers were or ordered ered to charge The cruiser Valiant and two destroyers have I moved into the Mersey river to protect pro- pro tet the docks I TRAMS IDLE I The of bus and tramway lines failed to report for work this morning No notice of a strike had been given but It is not believed that the movement was vas undertaken in sympathy with the policemen's strike i A mass meeting of trade I unionists in the stadium last night adopted a resolution declaring common common common com com- mon cause with the police strikers but deprecating looting on the ground that it gave the government an excuse for t employing the military MORE RIOTING Rioting was vas renewed during the night in the London road district with window smashing Blank shots were fired over the huge crowds with little effect Special police and plain plainclothes plainclothes clothes men were unable to disperse the mob and uniformed officers were I called These charged with their batons and checked rioters injuring many but were unable to clear tho the I streets entirely Approximately half the police pollee force is striking It is reported that more I troops and some tanks have been I ordered to the city i I TANKS ON GUARD LONDON Aug 4 The 4 The elaborate I military preparations to protect the city of Liverpool are thus described by the correspondent of the Daily Mail 1 at that city under date of Sunda Sunday Soldiers each carrying rounds of ammunition guard the public buildings Four tanks are on the square outside St. St Georges George's hall The I square Is filled with motor wagons I and ambulances and there is a strong guard on duty Hundreds of soldiers are on the steps leading up to the hall It resembles a scene when the British had taken over a French town during the war S Several veral thousand troops are quartered in various parts of the city General Snow commanding commanding command command- ing the tho western district has arrived to take hold of ot the situation Off the port at the request of the authorities are arc the battleship Valiant and two destroyers RAILROAD TIED UP Labor men said this morning that the strike of railway engineers was in support of the thc police strikers and will affect a number of workers dependent dependent de de- dependent de- de pendent on the tho activity of the en- en The secretary of 01 the branch said there will be neither passenger nor freight service on the Southwestern railway today |