ARMY IN CHARGE
CAMPS DEMOLISHED. WASHINGTON, Saturday. The United States army which was summoned yesterday by the President, Mr. Hoover, had by to-day smashed the grip which has been held on Washington for months by thousands of veterans who demanded the immediate payment of their bonuses for wartime army service. As mute evidence of a struggle that has no identical parallel in this country, four scan*ed areas mark the once populous encampments of the "Bonus" expeditionary force. William Huslca, of Chicago, an exsoldiei', is dead and scores are nursing their injuries. The troops remain in command and' tho veterans who were clustered in' small groups were driven forth by tear gas and flaming torches applied to their erude shelters, and headedr from the city. They threaten to reorganise elsewhere. Mr. Walter Waters, of Portlahd (Oregon), commander in chief of the "Bonus" Expeditionary Force, Was; not at Anacostia when it was emptied and burned. It is reported that bie had left, telling some of his follo-W-ers to meet him in JohnstoVn' (Pennsylvania) . He issued an earlier' statement saying: — "Not matter what may happen, from now on the "Bonus" Expeditionary Force will carry on; we have gone too far to quit."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 289, 1 August 1932, Page 5
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