POLICE CHARGE.
LIVERPOOL RIOT. Mounted Men Disperse Angry Unemployed Mob. MANY PEOPLE INJURED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 2.30 pja.) LONDON, September 21. Thirty were injured and 15 arrested in Liverpool, while many shop and tramcar windows were broken, in a series of clashes between the police and the unemployed. Pour thousand demonstrators marched through the streets this afternoon, demanding the abolition of the means test and a higher scale of poor law relief. The procession was quiet and orderly till a woman knocked off a policeman's helmet. When an attemnt was made to arrest her the angry crowd attacked the police with stones, bricks and bottles. Police reinforcements were summoned and, accompanied by 50 mounted police, they charged the crowd with drawn batons. Several persons were knocked down. The disturbances were renewed this evening, when the mounted men had to disperse a crowd which smashed several shop windows. Heavy police forces patrolled the streets throughout the whole of the night.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 225, 22 September 1932, Page 7
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