PARLIAMENT RAIDED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 192, 7 April 1932, Page 5

PARLIAMENT RAIDED

(Press Assn.—

CITIZENS' PARADE GETS OUT OF HAND AND POLICE USE BATONS RESlGNAiUON OF GOVERNMENT

-By' Telegraph— Copyrlght).

Rec. April 6. 6.10 p;m. St. JOHN'S (N.F.), Tuesday. Several men were irijured, .this afternoon when the police drew their batons to quell a distufbance during a parade of fcitizens who were carfying a resolution to lay before the Legislative Assembly of Newfoundland. Doors Uhd windows Were hrokeri in the House. in. a tussle hetween squads Of police and unruiy elements iri the parade. The crowd sought to present a petition before the House, protesting against the GoYefhment's failure to hold a Parliamentary inquiry into charges tbat the minutds 6f the executive Council had been falsiffed. As the procession reached thei steps of Parliament Buildings, bne sectibh hbcame unfuly and defied the police. Under order s the police drew their batons and laid about them lusfily. It was some time before the disturbance was' qublled. Government Resigns Early to-night the Newfoundland Governriiterif resigned. The Premier, Sir. R. A. Squires, and a detaChmdrit of police were Sheltdfing in thb House," while the mbh waited at tbd ddors. Several police were • ihjufed by stones, and various persbns were injiired by police batons. When the entrance of the citizeris' deptitation was delayed late this afbefnoon, the wihdows and dbbrfe of the building were smashed. The parade, which was estimated to number I0,0t)0 persons, bfecame angefed dt the delay. One sectibh siiffered irijuri^s wheii the police ehgaged them, but the fiotT ers gairied the upper harid, broke all the windows in the basembnt Of Government Building, looted the file&, arid threw the documehts into the stfeets. THe crowd thbn faided the Gbverriment liquor stone and carried off all |he availahle supplies. Later they began to disperse.