RIOT IN EDINBURGH
BOTTLES AND HAMMERS USED.
PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS.
MOUNTED POLICE CALLED IN. /United PreßS Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, April 28. Two thousand demonstrated at the City •H!aiU„ Edinburgh, when the Protestant) Action Society protested against a civic reception to delegates to the Catholic Young Men’s Society conference. All the available police were called out as the rival factions fought with bottles and hammers.
Mounted police rode in, scatteiing the crowd.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 167, 29 April 1935, Page 6
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