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Show ROUNDUP STRIKERS Vancouver, B. C. Aug 19. -John ! Place, Socialist member of the Brit- J lsh Columbia parliament; Arthur Joi- m dan, secretary of the Naniamo coal clners" local, and Joe Angelo, leader 1 l of the foreign element In th strike t at Naniamo. were arrested at Naniaino L last night with forty others Implica- tf ted in strike disturbances They were Y charged with taking part in an 'unlaw- jl l'ul assembly This and the flooding of the Western Fuel company's mlns i today and the discovery' of a pile of ammunition at Ladysmith ha've j E thrown the district into a state of 1 H great excitement. Surrounding tbe Naniamo Athletic 4 I club, where 500 miners had gathrod 1 to discuss the terms of the proposed .1 P agreement with the management of P the Jlnglepot mine 400 soldiers un- 1 P dor the command of Col Hall barred j fP every avenue of escape and took ev M ery man In the building into custody 1 P The were removed In batches of ten - S under guard to the court house, whore P they were searched Those who could H be identified as having taken part In the disturbances of last week were arrested and after having been sep- i arated from their companions, were "1 marched under a strong body guard ll to the provincial jail. The others I" were liberated. il When the news of the "round-up" U became known, there was a genera rush in the direction of Athletic hall. I but the Bentrles from the Highland . brigade drove the crowd back. Many women were In the crowd and their ' n-ies and sobs could be heard on all sides. I |