INDIGNANT DUNTON.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14837, 1 December 1913, Page 6

INDIGNANT DUNTON.

The village of Dunton- Green, ml; Kent; has sprung.into fame (say?-.the. "Ages London correspondent).:: DuinS ton -Green is about twenty; mi"jw.,fronts London, and two miles from on the road, from London to the jtooyfii lar' coastal resorts of Margate,. Fol_e|s Btone, Dover, and Hastings. At<tbe| week-ends thousands Of motor _arf» travel through th© single strwfc of- .bof! village on their way to and from.;_iese»! resorts. At busy times tl-_ raotor-aii. 1 pass through the village at the. rate nearly 100 an.hour. __io indignatipri.6f| tho inhabitants of Dunton' Green - - nas| been •'aroused;by the fact that the fflotor-f cars, rushing through :_be. village dayii and night, make their live, anbearable;. At ono end.of tho village'.-/is hung a*. huge calico sign with the announcement-; in largo blacl. letters,'*_Joto£; Death RoH—Four Killed, Six/Injured.',';These casualties have all occurred■ withjn the - past eighteen mo_t_s.:, .:Hjw>Tjllagers*, havo successively 'petitionedi the. Kent ;' County Coiuicil, the Lbcal'Government f Board, and tho Board..? I>ade to regu-: lato the speed of cars through the'viki: lage, but withcut success. .They; ;. a s£j now signing a-potitioi*. to ing him, as a motorist, to. use enco to secare a proper enquiry, their complaints. They bold. :_. monstration in tho.village street to ejnq phasiso their protest against tht traffic. The demons'_'ation,vwhich Wtej regarded as of sufficient imjrortarice. W. tho London newspapers- as .o be; of promineneo in their coi*f: sisted of a procession of men and;Wora_j| and children carrying banners. /SchooW children havo been the chief tho reckless motorists, and in tho:-pm cession the loading banner, wh_n;l»ls. tho inscription, "To , Motoris_s---PItMW ( _ Do Not Kill Us," was .arried hy fm dren. The other banners tho villagers to protect: their *__»&| and to tho police, to do their tho -villagers do not obtain redress afte£_ their petition to the King they (K»| going to take the I_w 'nto their ovm hands. This is meant to implrgyf thoy will resort to some such method* of retaliation as scatteringbottles on tho roadway or placing, barbed wire across it. . ' .£_v'