DRIVE TO PREVENT ANOTHER FOOTBALL DISASTER
POLICE CHECK ON GROUNDS Received Tuesday, 8.20 p.m. LONDON,, March 12. Metropolitan police .superintendents, acting on Home Office .instructions, made secret inspections of all 11 football league grounds' in the London area, says the Daily Mail. It was the preliniinary niove in a great police drive to guard against another diaster ii&e that which caused the 33 deaths at Bolton. A special Scotland Yard conierenee will consider the superintendents' reports, and the sequel is expected to be a careful tiglitening up of crowd control. The superintendents questioned club officials on ground capacity, record crowds and police arrangements, and asked whether crowds had ever broKen into the ground without passing through the turnstiles. The inquest on the cup-tie victims at Bolton v/as so packed that many of the bereaved relatives had to stand in a crowd together in the back of the Courtroom. The Coroner (Mr. J. Hopwood-Sayer) said: The whole country feels with prot'ound sympathy for the relatives of those who sutt'ered in this terrible oc^ currence. After evidence of identification today the inquest will be adjourned until April 8, when it will resume soi'ely to consider a convenient date for the inouirv nrouer.
Mr. A. E. McKenna, for the Bolton Ulub, said that the eluh would give all its assistance towards ascertainihg truiy what happened with a view to preventing a recurrence on any other ground. In the Ilouse of Commons the Home Secretary (Mr. Chuter Ede), replying to questions regarding the disaster, said he was conhdent that the police took all the steps open to them. He had made particular inquiries regarding that, and he knew of nothing more which could be done without legislation. "I propose to set up an inquiry to consider whpther apy ^gendi#!?iEea?3ipps shouid ffie takfen to imiriimise rdanger: in similar tragedies ''in .future. I ,am, meanwhile, considering a report: by the Chief Constahle at Bolton." " ' •*
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 March 1946, Page 4
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