CROWD CHARGED BY MOUNTED MEN.
After this a bi S crowd, composed very largely of the five o'clock office folk, massed in the Post Office square, but for half an hour nothing happened. Large sections of the crowd were on the point of dispersing, when j tie most exciting event of the day ' occurred. This was nothing less than a charge of mounted police to clear the square, in the course of which several j of the crowd were knocked down, and more or lose injured. i It was a squad of 62 mounted con-
stables from the country, who engaged in this demonstration. They left the Lambton Quay station, and proceeded quietly to Jervoia quay, and went at a walking pace towards the Square. When the crowd saw them coming, it spread out towards them, and when sufficiently close, clustered round their flanks and greeted them with mingled cheers and "Boos." The crowd was composed of a much higher percentage ot the public than of the strikers, but the latter were vociferous in their "booings," and even went .further in their expressions of disapproval. In addition to crying "scab"and other opprobrious epithets, detonators wero thrown which exploded under the horses hoofs without, however, producing any effects.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14811, 31 October 1913, Page 7
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