MARCH IN LONDON
POLICE CLOSE DOWNING STREET PRESENTATION OF LABOUR RESOLUTION. FIRE ENGINES IN RESERVE. By Telegraph —Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, February 26. Thirty mounted policemen and a hundred on foot and three fire engines blocked the entrance to Downing Street when hundreds of people marched to Downing Street after Messrs C. R. Attlee and Herbert Morrison and Miss E. Wilkinson had delivered a resolution at No. 10 (the Prime Minister’s residence).
The police, amid a roar of boos, herded the demonstrators to the centre of Whitehall. Two hundred men and women broke the cordons and continued to march up and down the street, preceded by bugles, holding up traffic. The mounted police were forced to charge several times to break up the ranks and clear the road. It is revealed that the fire engines were summoned to Downing Street by an alarm, immediately the march began from Trafalgar Square.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 6
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150MARCH IN LONDON Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 6
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