COMMUNISTS ACTIVE
6,030 UNEMPLOYED INCITED (Received this day at 1045 a.m.) (.United Prees Association. uj 'uim u" Telegraph.—Copyright. / LONDON, Feb. 24. Six thousand unemployed at Bristol incited by Communist speakers, clashed with the police. There were over thirty casualties, and several police were injured, 'me crowd marched towards the Council Chambers with red flags, when the police attempted to divert the procession, but they were overwhelmed and forced to use their batons. Fierce fighting developed and reinforcements of mounted police arrived and scattered tiie crowd. The rioters rallied and, in two hours’ fighting thirty were injured. Photographs show police charging with upraised batons, several demonstrators being felled. In London these pictures causeu three thousand men to make an attempt to reach Parliament House, but the House was strongly guarded and the mounted police dispersed the mob, some of whom attempted to destroy the flags on the Cenotaph, but they were prevented by a police charge.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1932, Page 6
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155COMMUNISTS ACTIVE Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1932, Page 6
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