RIOTS IN LONDON
LOOTING OCCURS DEMONSTRATORS DEMAND BREAD (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, October 19Though the police largely prevented three thousand unemployed from completing five processions, which were organised from several districts to St. George’s Circus, in Southwark, where, a mass meeting was planned, there were numerous disorderly outbreaks. The outbreaks were particularly disorderly in Westminster, where the gangs broke windows, and looted shops. The police regulations that are in operation when the House °f Commons is sitting, prohibit all processions wiUhin a mile of the House of Parliament.
“We want bread!’’ was the continual cry at St. G’eorge’rs Circus. Mounted police, armed with staves, efficiently kept everything moving, despite the fact that there were flights of .stones and of drinking glasses from the hotel bars.
Th e rioting was no sooner quelled in one place than it broke out in another part. The loeting occurred when missiles struck windows. The finfrow streets were littered with glass, There were thirty-two arrests made. The police also dispersed a large meeting at Tower Hill,
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1932, Page 5
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173RIOTS IN LONDON Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1932, Page 5
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