RIOT AT BRISTOL.
MOB OF UNEMPLOYED. MORE THAN 30 INJURED. LONDON, Feb. 24. Six thousand unemployed at Bristol, inciter) by Communist speakers, clashed with the police and t here were more than 30 casualties. Several policemen were injured. A crowd marched toward the Council Chambers with red flags. The police attempted to divert the procession, but were overwhelmed, and forced to use their batons.
Fierce fighting developed. Reinforcements of mounted police arrived and scattered the crowd, but the rioters rallied, and in two hours' fighting the casualties occurred.
Photographs showed the polico charging with upraised batons, several of the demonstrators being felled. In London these pictures caused 3000 men to make an attempt to reach the House of Parliament, but it was 6troiigly guarded, and mounted police dispersed the mob. Some who attempted to destroy the flags on the Cenotaph weie prevented by the police,'who charged. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21117, 26 February 1932, Page 9
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