DISORDER IN CHAPEL
SERVICE ENDS IN
CHAOS
COMMEMORATION OF GUN-
POWDER PLOT
LONDON, November 1.
Police guarded the doors and were forced to restore order among the congregation at Lewes Chapel at the conclusion of a service yesterday organised by the Loyal' Orange Institution in commemoration of the discovery of Guy Fawkes's gunpowder plot and the burning of 17 Sussex martyrs. Frequently the sermon was inaudible owing to the reports of fireworks. The congregation left the chapel in chaos. Pews were overturned and hymn books and papers littered the floor. During wild scenes at the Orangemen's procession at Liverpool the police charged the crowd in the beflagged streets and made six arrests. Fierce fighting broke • out as the Orangemen left St. .Silas's Church. Mounted and foot police, with batons, swept the shouting crowd before them. Many women were pushed over in the crush. A perambulator was overturned and the baby thrown out during the disorder. ' .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1937, Page 9
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