TROOPS v. VETERANS

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3784, 30 July 1932, Page 5

TROOPS v. VETERANS

In a Tragic Collision SENSATION FOR AMERICA BONUS ARMY ROUTED NOTHING LIKE IT BEFORE IS THERE TROUBLE AHEAD By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received July .30, 10.14 n.m.) \Yaihi.ngton July 2D. Tlio troops of tlu United States army summoned yesterday ky President Hoover liad a Lnsy time to-day. THE GRIP LOOSENED Tiny smashed the ctv il- hold on Washington for months bv the thonsa.nds of war veterans demanding mmodiate payment of the bonus for their wartime army services. WITHOUT PARALLEL \ s mute eviihnee c.f a. struggle tlni t has Mio identical JvaraTlol : .n, this country, four scarred areas in the city mark the once populous encampments of the bonus expeditiontry force. DEAD AND IN J (RED Will’aiu Husk,a. of Chicago, an c: soldier, is dead and scores are nursing injuries. BURNED OUT The troops remained in command and the veterans were ilr’ven forth by the u e of tear ga-s bombs. Flaming torches were applied to their crude shelters. THU VEX AWAY 'l’he men are clustered in small groups oi- have headed from the city seeking to organise elsewhere. THE LEADED MISSING Walter Waters of Portland, Oregon, commander- n-cliiej- of the !>onu s *'Xpedltionary force, was not a t Anarosta when it was emptied and burned. It i.- reported tbat be bad Eft, telling some of b followers to meet bim in Johnstown in Pennsylvania. HAVE GONE TOO FAB Earlier lie i ssued a statement saying: “No' matter whltit may happen, ; 'from now on thcrhwwtw expeditionary loreu will carry on. Wo have gone too far to quit.”