K.K.K. DISORDERS

Evening Star, Issue 19032, 29 August 1925, Page 10

K.K.K. DISORDERS

TEAS BOMBS USED TROOPS CALLED OUT. NEW YORK, August 22, Troops from four barracks have quelled another Ku Klux Klan disorder. Klansmcu were attacked by a mob, which threw rocks, bottles, and tear bombs. .4 Bloodshed would have resulted but for the prompt intervention of the police. Though many shots were fired no one was injured, except those who suffered from tear gas. Tho meeting was held at Reading in Massachusetts, a mill town populated chiefly by foreign Catholic workers from Southern Europe. Immediately after the first bombs were thrown the local police separated the lighters, lining Klansmeu on one side of tho road and their opponents on tho other. They held them there until mounted police from lour barracks arrived and dispersed the crowds. Last week a Klan riot at Framingham resulted in twenty men being wounded and injured. As a result poventy-flvo K.K.K. members were arrested. Earlier in the year a Klan meeting was broken up at Niles, Ohio, and hundreds lighting in tho streets with sticks and stones had to bo driven off by the armed police. 'An attack or a Klan meeting at Lilly, Pennsylvania, resulted in a revolver battle. Many wore wounded and soverni opponents of the Fiery Cross killed. Police also settled this affair, and arrested eighteen Klansmeu. Ail meetings of the organisation are held at night in tho open, and the Fierv Gross Ugh in the sky is a guide to all eager for fight.