CROWD IN WHITEHALL
MOUNTED POLICE ACT DOWNING STREET ENTRANCE BLOCKED [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Feb. 27, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 26. Thirty mounted police, 100 foot police, and three fire-engines blocked the entrance to Downing Street when hundreds qf people marched to Whitehall after an enormous demonstration in Trafalgar Square organ ised by the National Council of Labour and the London Trades Council, as a protest against the recognition of General Franco. Former members of the International Brigade headed the procession, which arrived in Downing Street after the Labour members Mr. C. R. Attlee, Mr. Herbert Morrison and Miss Ellen Wilkinson had delivered a resolution to No. 10, the Prime Minister's residence.
The police, amid a roar of boos, herded the demonstrators down the centre of Whitehall, but 200 men and women broke the cordons and continued to march up and down the street, preceded by bugles and holding up the traffic. The mounted police were forced to charge several times to break up the ranks and clear the road.
It was revealed that the fire-engines were summoned to Downing Street by an alarm immediately the march began from Trafalgar Square.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 49, 28 February 1939, Page 7
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191CROWD IN WHITEHALL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 49, 28 February 1939, Page 7
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