UNRULY CROWD

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1932, Page 6

UNRULY CROWD

AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE. United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at noon.) ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, April 5. Several men were injured this afternoon when the police draw their batons to quell, a disturbance, during a parade of citizens carrying a resolution ot lay before the Legislative Assembly of Newfoundland.

Doors and windows were broken in the House in a tussle between squads of police and unruly paraders. Tile crowd sought to present a petition before the House protesting against the Government’s failure to hold a parliamentary inquiry into the charges that the minutes of the Executive Council had been falsified.

As the procession reached the steps of the Parliamentary Buildings, one section became unruly and defied the police. Under orders, the police drew their*’ batc.n» andwhrkl about them busily. It Was sometime before tin. disturbances was quilled.

SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED.

GOVERNMENT FUSES. LOOTED

ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland), April 5. Early on Tuesday night the Newfoudland Government resigned. Premier Squires and a detachment of police were sheltering in a house at the Assembly, while the mol) waited at the doors.

Several of the police were injured by stones, and various persons were injured by police batons. When the entrance of a citizens’ deputation was delayed late on Tuesday afternoon, windows, doors and buildings were smashed.

The parade, estimated at ten thousand persons, became irked at the delay, and one section suffered injuries when the police engaged them, but the rioters gained tiie upper hand and broke all windows in the basement of the Government Buildings, looted the files and threw the documents into the street*.