MOUNTED MEN CHARGE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 365, 29 October 1932, Page 5

MOUNTED MEN CHARGE

(Press. Assn.-

SERIOUS TRbtJBLE FOLLOWS HUWger^RCH ON LONDON J ' • r— . 1 • : fi . SEVERAL CASUALTIES As a s^quel to the "hunger march" on London by thonsands of unemployed as a protest against the means test, trouble eventuated in the streets of London, where the crowd came into eonflict with the poljice. Moiunted constahles made charges andtbroke up the meetings. A number of injured police and' civilians were sent to the hospital. Demonstrations were also held at Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester, but the police precautions prevented trouble.

— By Telegre.ph — Cocy:rtgM).

London, Oct. 27.' Though the gathering of 20,000 ' assembled within Hyde Park gave ; little trouble, riotous scenes marked { a conflict between the police and ' thousands of sympathisers with the hunger marchers around the Marble Arch. Before a mass meeting began, an arrest outside the park incited thousands to surge forward, snarling and hooting as the. van removed the prisoner. Twelve mounted police charged with staves, \yhile 20 others chased the demonstrators into the by-streets, several being arrest^d. The windows of a drapery shop were smashed, but the shutters prevented looting. Other disturhances were quelled, hut as liome-going vehicles swelled the ti'affic the roadways assumed a state of chaos. The police cleared a passage and made further arrests, while the , crowd threw mud at the stationary police cars. Mounted poljce disper^ed 1000 men who "vyere threatening special constahles, whom the crowd resented as "blacklegs." The fugitives rifled a colce car and smashed its windows. Other demonstrators boarded passing lorries. They snatched the mops and pipes with which they were laden, and menaeed the mounted constahles. Some waving red flags, shouted "To hell with the National Government." The police galloped ixp and down Rotten Row quelling disturhances. Further arrests were made before the processions broke up. Eight civilians and four police were sent to the hospital. Ten thousand unemployed demonstrated against the means test in Glasgow. The police, however, prevented trouble as they also did with similar displays in Birmingham and Manchester.