BULL FIGHT SENSATION

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1930, Page 5

BULL FIGHT SENSATION

OBJECTORS INVADE ARENA

[United Press Association —By Electric Telegr a pli.—Copy r i gh t.)

LONDON, May 29

The Daily Mail’s Paris correspondent says: Ten thousand spectators who were at a bullfight, arranged at Melun in aid of scholastic charities, got far more excitement than they anticipated when five hundred men, women and girl members of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals League tried to stop the spectacle. Despite an announcement' that the bulls would not lie killed, the protestors rushed to the front rows, armed with police whislas, and when the Picadors appeared, mourned on horses, whose flanks were bleeding from spurs, the members of the League led by a pretty girl scrambled into Hie bullring, and linked bands, thus cutting off the Picadors from the bulls’ enclosure.

Pandemonium broke out, and flic spectators rose to their feet howling. There were free fights in the ring arena. The gates were opened, and a squadron of mounted Gendarmes charged the protestors, while foot police pulled thorn out of the arena, amid the crowd’s cheers, Members of the League then threw smoke bombs into the arena and fresh fighting began. Meantime an aeroplane, winch the League had chartered, hovered overhead. The Picadors and Matadors rushed to shelter, but one bull seized an opportunity to charge a Matador. This Matador the memliers of the League thrust back into the arena while he was climbing up the fence, to which he then hung on desperate-

ly. . +1 The Gendarmes, however, v, on tlio battle after many broken noads. Hie bullfight was then concluded. T r - i? expected that the affair will raise the legality of .'bullfights in France.