LIVERPOOL RIOTS
THIRTY INJURED FURTHER DISORDER PREVAILS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, September 21. Thirty persons were injured, while fifteen have been arrested in the city sjf Liverpool, where many shop windows and ’tram-car windows have been broken during clashes ,between the police and the unemployed. There were four thousand demonstrators. They marched through the streets in the afternoon, demanding the abolition of the Means Test for- the higher scale of poor law relief. The procession was a quiet and orderly one, till a ’ woman knocked off a •policeman’s helmet. Then an attempt wa9 made t© arrest her, whereupon the angry crowd attacked the police with stones, bricks and bottles. The police had- summoned. Fifty policement, who were f accompanied by mounted men, then charged the crowd with their drawn batons. Several persons were knocked down Tho disturbances were renewed in the evening, when mounted policemen had to disperse the crowd, which smashed several shop windows, Heavy police forces have patrolled the Liverpool streets during the whole night,
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1932, Page 5
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169LIVERPOOL RIOTS Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1932, Page 5
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