BULL FIGHT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 May 1930, Page 9

BULL FIGHT

MORE EXCITEMENT THAN ANTICIPATED EFFORTS TO PREVENT CRUELTY PANDEMONIUM IN ARENA (United Press Association—By Eleotrlo Telegr ap h—Copy* J ght) LONDON, 29th May. The "Daily Mail's" Paris correspondent says 10,000 spectators at a bullfight at Melun in aid of scholastic charities got far more excitement than they anticipated when 500 men, women and girl members of tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Leaguo tried to stop the spectacle. Despite tho announcement that the bulls would not be killed, the protestors rushed to tho front rows armed with police whistles, and when tho picadors appeared mounted on horses whose flanks were bleeding from spurs, members of the league, led by a pretty girl, scrambled into the bull ring and linked hands, cutting off the picadors from the bulls in the enclosure.

Pandemonium broke out and tho spectators rose to their feet, howling. There were free fights in the ring. Tho arena gates wore opened and a squadron of mounted gendarmes charged the protectors while foot police pulled them out of the arena amid the crowds' cheers. Members of the leaguo throw smoke bombs into, the arena and fresh fighting began. Meantime •an aeroplane which the league had chartered hovered overhead.

Tho picadors and matadors rushed to shelter, but a bull seized the opportunity to charge a matador, whom members of the league thrust back into the arena while he was climbing a fence to which he hung on desperately. Gendarmes won the battle after many broken heads, and the bullfight was concluded. It is expected the affair will raise the legality of bullfights in France.