CELEBRATING GUY FAWKES NIGHT
London Revels Bring 110 To Court
(Rec. 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 6. One hundred and ten persons will appear in Court this morning as the result of rioting by crowds celebrating Guy Fawkes night in West End streets last night.
Thousands crowded the city, fought •with police, shotted, blocked traffic and threw fireworks at police and into cars and buses.
Thousands of men and women, many of them university students, went rampaging through the West End.
A fireworks battle by students in Parliament Square, next to the House of Commons, had to be broken up by mounted police. Revellers have been charged with various offences, ranging from assaulting and obstructing policemen to using insulting language.
One student tried to put a small box of explosives quietly under the helmet of a policeman. Around the statue of Eros, the god of love, in the centre of Piccadilly Circus, policemen linked arms as hundreds ran shrieking, throwing fireworks as they went.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27191, 7 November 1953, Page 7
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