Worcestershire Racial Strife Continues

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29890, 2 August 1962, Page 13

Worcestershire Racial Strife Continues

IN Z P A -Reuter—Copyright)

DUDLEY <Worcestershire) August I Groups of anti-negro demonstrators were broken up by police with snarling Alsatian dogs on leashes last night in the fourth day of simmering, sometimes violent, racial trouble in the town of Dudley. Shortly before midnight, the police reinforced by officer.' from nearby towns, went into action against a jeering crowd of about 500 mainly men and youths, gathered in Dudley's market place At least five were arrested

The “Daily Mail” said gangs of men and youths, many carrying bricks, formed up when the public-houses closed at 10 30 p.m and marched to the market square. They jeered at police: "Come and get the boys who beat the blacks.”

Earlier. 200 persons chanted threats outside the town's court house, where 15 men. boys and girls appeared after a police clash with race rioters on Monday—a sequel to disturbances on Saturday and Sunday. A policeman told the Court the whites were "like a pack of ravening wolves "

Ten men were gaoled for one to three months and three boys sent to detention centres said the "Dally Mail."

Police Superintendent J W Hullah gave evidence with his head stitched after being clubbed unconscious He said police reinforcements had been rushed in from three neighbouring towns as the whites hunted down the colored people

The crowd had made its way to the negro quarter of this Midlands industrial town shouting and brandishing weapons, he said.