HYDE PARK RIOT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 270, 29 October 1932, Page 7

HYDE PARK RIOT

12 ARRESTS EFFECTED MANY REPORTED INJURED. IRON BOLTS THROWN AT POLICE (United Press Association—By CableCopyright.) (Received 29, 10.30 a.m.) London, Oct. 28. In the House of Commons, Sir John Gilmour said that 12 arrests were made and 19 police land 58 demonstrators injured in yesterday’s disturbances, in which iron bolts were thrown at the police, who found In a motor lorry 150 ash staves, some nail-studded. The Lancashire unemployed contingent to Hyde' Park was accompanied by a lorry: when the police searched it they found 154 ash sticks, some with nails protruding, under the foodstuffs. The presence of such weapons could only be deliberate. Another motor van somehow obtained entrance to the park and the police saw cudgels unloaded therefrom. It also contained sticks. The missiles found after the disturbance included iron bolts, stones, an eighteen-inch jemmy and an open clasp knife. The police behaved with great forbearance, shepherded the people in the streets with care and conducted them in the evening to places of shelter. The greater part of these difficulties was not caused by genuine unemployed. (Cheers). RINGLEADERS SENTENCED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 29, 12.30 p.m.) Rugby, Oct. 28. As a sequel to the disorderly episodes connected with the Hyde Park demonstration, 14 men appeared in the London Police Courts on various charges. Without exception all gave London addresses and apparently did not take part in the march to London from various parts of the country. Two were sentenced to six months’ hard labour for assaulting the police and fines of £5 and £1 were imposed on two others for obstructing the police. One prisoner was discharged and the remainder remanded.