PICCADILLY FRACAS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28491, 22 January 1958, Page 11

PICCADILLY FRACAS

Fighting After Rugby Draw

LONDON, January 20. A pitched battle between police and thousands of Rugby football fans in the heart of London brought a procession of offenders into the dock of Bow Street Court today. The battle began late on Saturday night, after the international match between England and Wales, which ended in a 3-3 draw. A great crowd of supporters gathered in Piccadilly Circus and fought to climb the statue of Eros, but were beaten off by mounted police. One man today was fined 40s for insulting behaviour. He was said to have struck a police horse with the buckle end of a belt. Three Welsh miners were charged together with injuring a policeman, who was said to be in hospital with a triple fracture of the wrist. They were remanded.

A Royal Air Force man who knocked a policeman’s helmet off his head was fined 30s. Other accused were fined small sums for causing obstructions.

Radioactive Girl In Holland

THE HAGUE, January 20 The four-year-old radioactive girl from Putten and her family would be free from genetic danger in a few months, according to an expert at The Hague today. Professor J. Cohen, an experl on radioactivity, told a press conference that the family would have to remain in hospital for observation some two or three weeks. The girl. Joke Haanschoten, became radioactive after being treated with radium at Utrecht Hospital. The head of a needle containing radium had broken off unnoticed and was still in Joke’s nose when she went home. A Public Health Ministry official said: “We cannot provide conjectures about the future of either the child or family.”