RIOTS IN LONDON.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1661, 17 November 1887, Page 1

RIOTS IN LONDON.

| London. Nor. 13. In express defiance of -Sir Charles Warren’s proclamation, forbidding meetings in Trafalgar Square, a number of Radical Societies of London persisted in an attempt to hold a meeting this morning in that locality. Some thirty thousand persons were present, but they were mostly respectable spectators. The square was encircled by several thousands of police and a strong force of the Horse and Root Guards, who appeared with fixed bayonets. A Magistrate who was in attendance addressed the crowd and read the Riot A.ct. The first collision occurred at Shaftesbury Avenue with 10,000 Clerkenwell rougher, headed by Mis Besant and Mr W. Morris. A severe light resulted, the mob making severe onslaught with sticks, but finally the latter were dispersed. A second collision took place with another procession in the Strand, and sticks and stones were freely used. There were incessant skirmishes in the vicinity of the square, but the mounted police insisted on the crowd moving on. Batons were freely used, but the police acted with admirable moderation. i'he railings of the square were destroyed. Evening. Four hundred persons were arrested, among them being Air Graham, M.P. for Northwest Lanarkshire, and Burns the Socialist, Mrs Besaut invited arrest, but the police refused to take her. A great number of others were seriously injured, i;o less than seventy-five being admitted to the Hospitals. Various processions were intercepted by the. police before reaching Trafalgar square, where they were dispersed only alter extreme measures had been resorted to. The chief conflict occurred close to the Houses of Parliament, where the police encountered a mob of some thousands of South Londoners, in dispersing which two constables were stabbed. Desperate conflicts occurred in the Haymarket and Strand. The police were everywhere victoiious in the collisions with the rioters, though the contests were of a most stubborn character. The Pall Mall Gazette is violently inciting mobs to assemble in thousands and to march to Trafalgar Square, Sir Charles Warren has'forbiddenail processions to the Square to-duy (Sunday). Mr Henry Matthews, the Home Secretary, informed a deputation of ratepayers that Trafalgar Square is Grown property, and the Metropolicanßoard of works would bo empowered to close the square entirely if necessary. Nov. 14, A telegram received from Mr Gladstone has been published, wherein he urges that the legality of the prohibition of meetings in Trafalgar Square ought to be promptly verified. Meanwhile lie declares it to be the duty of every citizen to abstain from resisting the action of the Executive. The persons arrested for taking prominent parts in the liotous proceedings yesterday, were brought before the Magistrates to-day. Numbers of prisoners were fined, and others were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Mr R. Graham, M.F., was remanded, bail being accepted. The Press in commenting on the action of tho police in the recent riots, state that many of the mob were armed with iron bare, knives, pokers, and pieces of gas piping. Tho wounds of tho rioters are leas severe than those of tho constables. The soldiers were cheered ou their appearance by the nonparticipants in tho riots. One rioter was bayoneted ; fi ( ty have been committed to gaol, and the test released. Fully five thousand police were engaged in the disturbance.

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