DISGRACEFUL SCENES

Evening Star, Issue 19795, 20 February 1928, Page 8

DISGRACEFUL SCENES

DEMONSTRATION IN CHURCH POLICE RESCUE VICAR Tresa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 19. (Received February 20, at 2.5 a.m.) A strong police force with difficulty coped with a mod af thousands at St. C'lthbert’s. The scenes wore most disgraceful yet. Twelve hundred protester- inside the church, some standing on Hie seats, demonstrated against the Snug Eucharist, singing the thirtyeighth hymn loudly, and coughing and talking.. Sixty of the vicar’s supporters endeavoring to tollow the curate, Mr Norman Crawshaw's, celebration service were drowned, though they persevered from 9.30 until noon. The vicar mounted the pulpit, and tried for two hours to preach. He eventually brie fly delivered a message to his followers amid a volume ol Hostile psalmody, concluding with the National Anthem. He proceeded homo between lines of police, whom the hooting crowd ol 8,000 charged, knocking the vicar and several constables into the shrubbery. Mounted police rescued the vicar. A skirmish near the vicarage followed, the crowd dispersing half an hour later.—A. and N.Z. and ‘ Sun ’ cable. ,