HANGERS-ON AND HOOLIGANS.
CLUB PRECINCTS RANSACKED,
JEWELLERY LOOTED,
(Received 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 19. Seventy persons were more or less injured in the Whitehall riot. Twenty were removed on stretchers and several were detained in hospital. The genuine demonstrators numbered about, fifteen thousand, ■ mostly ex-ser-vice men. Police and other witnesses
state that the rioters numbered sev-
eral thousand, nearly all hangers-on and hooligans of the East End foreign type, using the demonstration as cover for lawlessness. Towards the close of the riot a jeweller's shop in the Strand near Trafalgar Square was looted. Another gang of rioters broke the doors of the Junior Army
and Navy Club and ransacked bags
and portmanteaux in the vestibule. '- The police in strong force patrolled the streets in the neighbourhood of Trafalgar Square. to prevent further looting.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 20 October 1920, Page 5
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