SENSATIONAL RIOTS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1930, Page 6

SENSATIONAL RIOTS

IN HUNGARIAN CAPITAL. [United Press Association—By Eleetrio ■ Telegraph.—Copyright.] BUDAPEST, Sept. 1. An organised demonstration against the Hungarian Government’s alleged refusal to grant employment pay led to the most serious riot here within the last decade. It is estimated that four were killed and three hundred wounded in the course ol numerous clashes. The trouble began with dramatic suddenness. As an advancing horde of faqtory hands appeared in the streets converging on the traffic junctions, a hidden force of five thousand police, three thousand of whom had been Specially drafted from the provinces. poured from the side streets mounted on horses. They duslied into the mob, but >the workers rolled on like a tidal wave, shouting “We w r ant work and bread.”

One account says that a /squadron of the mounted police were greeted with a volley of stones, and then, drawing their swords ftnd revolvers, the police tried their horses on the crowd, slashing, right and left with their swords. The mob then hurriedly threw up "barricades at the sides of „the streets, and refused to flee. Old women shook their fists at the officers while their husbands and sons were beaten with the flat of tlie swords. In the afternoon the Piefect of Police ordered his men to use whatever means were necessary to disperse the mob. Armoured cars were called out.

Motor cars and tram cars were overturned, cafes were smashed, and shops were wrecked. An official communique states that Communist pamphlets were found on many of those arrested. At 8.30 on Monday night the Ministry of the Interior announced that order had been restored, adding that adequate measures bad been taken agstinst any recrudescence of tlie rioting.