FOOD RIOTS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1931, Page 5

FOOD RIOTS

POLICE CHARGE VAST CROWDS (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, October 2. A repetition of the scenes between the police and the unemployed at Salford has occurred at Glasgow to-night. The police of the city prevented a crowd of fifty thousand people on the. Glasgow Green, who were headed by ■Mr McGovern, the member of the House of Commons, from marching through the city. Mounted police charged into the Green, thereby scattering tHe demonstrators, many of whom were injured. Several police were also sent to the hospital.

The crowd were driven from the Green. They then smashed hundreds of the shop windows and rifled the provision shops. The residents of the tenements joined the rioters, they hurling bottles down on the police. Twelve arrests were made, including Mr McGovern. Mr McGovern was charged with ‘'‘'forming a disorderly mob.”

GLASGOW RIOTS

LONDON, October 2

There .was a fresh outbreak at Glasgow after nrdnight. A crowd, who apparently were bent on looting, attacked twelve shops 'in the Garugad district. Jam jars and foodstuffs were thrown at them. Large slabs of Butter and lard lay on the roadway. One egg merchant’s whole stock was smashed.

Order was restored at two o’clock in the morning.