BRITISH WEST INDIES: Landing in Grenada

When Grenada's powerful Mental and Manual Workers' Union called an all-island strike last week to protest against anti-strike measures before the island legislature, island authorities frantically wirelessed for help. H.M.S. Devonshire, light cruiser on a training cruise in nearby waters, landed Royal Marines. As angry plantation workers rioted and fired buildings the marines set to work to get the situation in hand.

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