LIVELY INCIDENT

Southland Times, Issue 21097, 31 May 1930, Page 7

LIVELY INCIDENT

BULL FIGHT IN FRANCE

ATTEMPT TO PREVENT SPECTACLE

PANDEMONIUM REIGNS (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 7150 p.m.), London, May 29. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail says that 10,000 spectators at a bull fight arranged at Melun in aid of scholastic charities got far more excitement than they anticipated when 500 men, women, and girl members of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals League tried to stop the spectacle.

Despite an announcement that the bulls would not be killed, the protestants rushed to the front rows armed with police whistles, and when the picadors appeared mounted on horses whose flanks were bleeding from spurs, the members of the league, led by a pretty girl, scrambled into the bull ring and linked hands, cutting off the picadors from the bulls’ enclosure. Pandemonium broke out, and spectators rose to their feet howling. There were free fights in the ring. The arena gates were opened, and a squadron of mounted gendarmes charged the protestants, while foot police pulled them out of the arena amid the crowd's cheers. The members of the league threw smoke bombs into the arena, and fresh fighting began. In the ’meantime, an aeroplane which the league had chartered hovered overhead. Picadors and matadors rushed to shelter, but a bull seized the opportunity to charge a matador, whom the members of the league thrust back into the arena while he was climbing a fence, to which he hung on desperately. Gendarmes won the battle after manv heads had been broken, and the bull fight concluded. It is expected that the affair will raise the question of legality of bull fights in France.