BEDFORD HOUSE LIKE A FORTRESS
Rocoivcd Wednesdav, 11.25 p.m. LOXDOX, Sejit. 11. Two yrinistry of Works oflicials who forced an entrv into the Duchess of Bedford 's liouse, wero throatencd by a squatter armed with an iron bar. The oflicials left for assistancc. Agcncv corrc^poudonts describe the building as a. fortress with all the doors liolted and barrcd. Preparations were made overnight to withstand a day's sioge. Only a few men in the llats went to work, tlie remainder act ing as sentries at doorways. During the night, food and jirovisions, most of wliieh was i.rought from the East End, were storeu in the Rats. Tlie oilieials went to the Rats to arrange for the reiuoval of 20 vanloads of Govenuuent funiiture whieh the squatters commandeered. One oRicial elimbcd througli a window and immediately a sentry raised a bar and threatciicil to hit Jiiiu on the liead. The oflicials left as the sqiiatlei's shouted I'roiii windows their deterinination to resi.st attcmpts lo reniove tliem until other accoinmodati'on ivas found.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 September 1946, Page 5
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