“We Want Bread!”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1067, 3 September 1930, Page 9

“We Want Bread!”

FOUR KILLED IN FOOD RIOT

Unemployed In Hungary

SHOWER OF STONES GREETS POLICE United, P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright BUDAPEST, Monday. AN organised demonstration against the Hungarian Government’s alleged refusal to grant unemployment pay led to the most serious riot that has occurred at Budapest for 10 years. It is estimated that four people were killed and 300 wounded in the course of numerous clashes.

The trouble began with dramatic suddenness. As an advancing horde of unemployed factory workers appeared in ihe streets converging upon the traffic junction a hidden force of 5,000 policemen, 3,000 of whom had been specially drafted to tlie capital from the provinces, poured from the side streets, mounted and dashed into the midst of the mob. The unemployed, however, continued to roll on like a tidal wave, shouting: “We want work and bread.” One account says a squadron of mounted policemen was greeted with a volley of stones. Then, drawing swords and revolvers, the police turned their horses on the crowd and slashed right and left with their swords The mob hurriedly threw up barri-

cades at the side streets and refused to flee. Old women shook their fists a,t the officers while their husbands or sons were beaten with the flats of swords. In the afternoon the Prefect of Police ordered his men to use whatever means might be necessary ro disperse the mob. Armoured cars were called out auil motor-cars and trarucars were overturned, cafeji were smashed and shops were wrecked. An official communique states that Communist pamphlets were found in the possession of many of those who were arrested. At 5.30 p.m. today the Minister of the Interior announced that order had been restored and that adequate measures had ben taken against a recrudescence of the rioting.'