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Inangahua Times, 28 October 1932, Page 3

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(United Press Assn—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Hunger Marchers’ Demonstration Reed 9 10am LoDdoD, Oct 27 The convergence of thousands of hunger marchers at the Hyde Park demonstraiion, seriously dislocated the midday traffic, otherwise it was uneventful. They carried banners demanding or employment, and singing ‘‘The Red Flag” or the InteraauuDale." Strong loices of mounted and foot police tactfully kept order. f Riotous Scenes

Reed 12 40 p.m. Though the 20,000 within Hyde I Park gave little trouble, riotous scenes marked the conflict between the police and thousands of sympathisers with the hunger marches around Marble Arch.

Before the mass meetiDg began, the arrest of a marcher in the Park Incited thousands to surge forward, snarling and hooting as v„n removed' the prisoner. Twelve mounted police charged with staves wh.le 20 ch sed the clemonstra ors in the hy streets. Several were arrested Drapers' shep windows were smashed, but the shuttering pre- ! vented looting. Other disturbances we-e quelled. ! but as the horn;-going vehicles’ swelled the traffic and the roadways became chaoiic. The police cleared a passage and

J , . ni|(| made furiher arrest*, while the crowd ' threw mud at the stationary police cars. Ihe mounted police dispersed a thousand men threatening- the special constables, whom the crowd resented as blacklegs. Fugitives rifled a coke car and smashed windows, and other demonstrators boarded lorries and snatched the mops and pipes with which they were laden and menaced the mounted constables. Some, waving red flags, shouted ‘ To Hell with the National Government.* | The police galloped up and down Kotten Row, quelling the disturbances and making further arrests. Before the processions broke up ' eight civilians and four police were sent to hospital. Ten thousand unemployed demonstrated against the Means lest at Olasgow, but the police prevented any trouble, as they did with similar displays at Birmingham and Man