HUNGER MARCHERS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1932, Page 6

HUNGER MARCHERS

(SCENES IN LONDON. 'United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received this dav at 1 5 p.tn.) LONDON, October 30.

Crowds clogged Trafalgar Square all 'Sunday .afternoon and assembled to see (the hunger; marchers’ dernomstration. A drizzle of sleet made conditions unpleasant. Many marchers attended church in the morning. Trouble did, not develop for two hours, after Which demonstrations by hooligans drilled with sticks in Whitehall, • North - umberland Avenue and Charing Cross compelled the police to charge. Several arrests resulted. Columns of processions headed by. pipers and other bands, arrived in. good . order. Spoalters scrambled, on IL© plinth of Nelson Monument, but the speeches failed to hold the crowd, who cheer-ed when the ohureh bells at St. Martin’s created a diversion. 1 chiming a hymn tune, /v JT Tfimely charge.- followed by the closing of the iron gates at tlm Ac ininilty Arch-, • defeated, the attempt of three hundred to rush the Mat| to-, wards Buckingham -■ Palace, shouting—“smash the palace windows,’’ Rail waymen stood ready to close the gates o' the underground station and the doors and grills- of- neighbouring: hotels- were shut.

The. prpeessions reiassemhled marched oft'i at, sunset ereorted by foot police* All was quiet by six o’clo'r’:. Nipe- persons, slightly injured i,n. riwclasTies, were treated at, *lie hospital?, and then discharged