AMAZING SCENES AT WESTMINSTER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 31 October 1921, Page 5

AMAZING SCENES AT WESTMINSTER

f'o M M1 I NI ST 1 ) KM ONSTR A TIO N ! (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian & N‘.Z. Cabls Association.) LONDON, Oet. D 3. There wore amazing'.scenes at Mcsrminster, when- ;hi organised body of Communists carrying red Hags broke up a meeting, using slink bombs, whistles, am! rallies. limy linaJU rnsbed Ihe platform and lure down the Idiiun Jack. Several were injured in a bum ul' bsiicuil's with the stewards. Lord Derby escaped scathless. Afterwards; wooden boxes wore discovered, la'neilod. ‘‘Anai'chist bombs ami stink bombs —made in Germany. TNOREASED ACTIVITV IN' COMMUNIST CIKCLKS LONDON, Old. 30. The Australian Dress Association understands that (Imre is growing anxiety regarding tlie increased aetiviiy m Communistic circles, it is admitted olfieiaily that al least Iwo _ hundred disturbed Lord Derby s meeting, including Hermans. D is also believed therejire more ex-service men among the Communists than was the case three months ago. Crave unemployment and consequent distress are aiding the mowinent, tlie progress ot which would he checked if relict was immediately available. Mr Oral in n Doyle tabled questions in the. House of Commons asking it l-be [ln me Seerelarv was aware that- active. Russian Bolshevik revolutionaries were attached to the majority of ihe Communist clubs in England.: that recriu - ing for an armed force is m progress: that a secret order has he.cn issued prior io the, unemployed demonstration to resist the police and create ns much disorder as possible.