SERIOUS RIOT IN LONDON.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1466, 11 February 1886, Page 1

SERIOUS RIOT IN LONDON.

London, Feb. 8. A mass meeting of the unemployed was held to-day in TratVimr Square, when a resolution was adopted lor an appeal to Government and Parliament generally to take step* to remedy the existing distress. Addresses of a vwy inflammatory character were delivered. Many speakers propounded Socialist doc trims of a violent kind, din- mob dispersed in a riotous manner when the meeting ended, and sma.-heil a number of Club windows in Pall Mull. Later.

The mob when returning from the meeting of the unemployed to-day behaved most disgracefully on the wav, breaking into, and completely sacking, the establishments of jewellers, wine sellers, and bakers in Piccadilly and South Audley streets ; attacking and robbing the occupants of passing car riages, as well as toot, passengers. I lie rioters then mare,lied through Oxford street and Regent street, smashing the windows as they passed along. The police were greatly outnumbered, and were powerless to suppress the outrage. Feb. 9.

Order has at length been restoivd in the West End, after the riotous proceedings of the unemployed. I !)•• amount of damage done cannot fully be estimated, but is known to ho immense. Later.

Burns and Hyndman were the leaders of the Socialist agitation in Trafalgar Square. For two hoars a mob, numbering five thousand people, held the West End of London almost unchecked Only a few arrests were made, the police alleging they were taken by surprise. A wanton and vindictive spiiii was displayed by the rioters, who kicked provisions about the streets.