Protest march in Amsterdam
i (N'.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) AMSTERDAM. About 3000 demonstrators I marched through the centre of Amsterdam after pitched battles with the police earlier in the day in which nine policemen were injured and 47 people arrested. The demonstrators gathered near the run-down X’ieumarket district, where the violence had broken out in the morning when policemen. using armoured cars. ! tear-gas and water-cannon, evicted the occupants of a small cluster of houses due for demolition to allow the construction of a new subway line. About 1000 young demonstrators converged on the area, ripped up bricks from the road, and fought policemen guarding the site. The protesters maintain that the construction of the new subway line, which is limed at reducing traffic congestion on the roads, will destroy the district’s characer, and that the construction •osts would be better spen* >n house-building I One of the main clashes tccurred outside 'he pictur- ’ isque house in which the , :eventeenth-century painter, I Rembrandt, lived.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33804, 29 March 1975, Page 22
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