Helmets Are For Police, Not Spires
LONDON, Nov. Yl. Scotland Yard, on Thursday night; ordefbd extrk polibe tb pktrol the aria ftrbiind tiie House of Gommons aiid other Government. buildings with spiffes suitable fpj* hanging policemen's helliifetS on. ThiS move was intended td guard against a repetition of the clinib on Friday hy medical Stiidents wlio jjlktffid a Sergbaflf 's helmet on a eentrkl spire of the Houses of Parliament. Tlie helmet,. which was recovered by k steeplejkck; was knatchfe4 ffrom a sdrgeknt 's hpad in .Kensington Gore diiring a bonfire night rag on November 5. On that night 15 more helmets wkre lost ahcl Sc'btland Yard • thinka thhl some medical students or students frdffi a rival hospital, #ill try to beat Flb days' feat.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 November 1949, Page 5
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