U.S. BONUS EXPEDITION

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3400, 30 July 1932, Page 5

U.S. BONUS EXPEDITION

SMASHED IN WASHINGTON BY ORDER OF PRESIDENT HOOVER. TO ORGANISE ELSEWHERE. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 11.57 a.m.) Washington, July 29. The United States Army, summoned yesterday by President Hoover, had by to-day smashed the grip held on Washington for months by thousands of war veterans demanding the immediate payment of the bonus for wartime army service. As a mute evidence of the struggle, that has no identical parallel in this country, four scarred areas mark the once populous encampments of the Bonus Expeditionary Force. William Huska, of Chicago, an exsoldier, is dead, and scores are nursing their injuries, and the troops remain in command of the situation. The veterans were driven forth by tear gas, and flaming torches applied to their crude shelters clustered in small groups. The men were headed from the city, but they are seeking to organise elsewhere. Walter Walters, of Portland, Oregon, the commander-in-chief of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, was not at Anacostia when it was emptied and burned. It is reported he had left, telling some of his followers to meet him in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Earlier he issued a statement saying: “No matter what may happen from now on, thg Bonus Expeditionary Force ill carry on. We have gone too far to quit.”