DASTARDLY ATTACK ON SALVATIONISTS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1024, 16 October 1891, Page 30

DASTARDLY ATTACK ON SALVATIONISTS.

A crowd assailed the Salvation Army at Eastbourne, a Sussex watering place, on August 31. Despite the throats of violence the Army resolved to parade as usual, and came to the meeting place from different directions, the members of the band bringing their instruments concealed in sacks They were waylaid by roughs, however, and all their instruments seized and smashed. They afterwards gathered without music, and started for their headquarters, but wore again attacked. By this time the police appeared, and attempted to protect the paraders, but before the barracks was reached the crowd had grown so large that it was deemed advisable to stop the procession. A free fight ensued, and hundreds of heads were broksn. Some of the injuries inflicted by clubs and stones were of a serious nature. The police rallied, bat tho mob renewed the attack being largely reinforced. The army standards were captured and broken, and the uniforms of many of the men were torn to pieces, while many of the lasses fainted and had to be removed on stretchers. The crowd finally broke into the barracks and wrecked everything they could lay hands on. Later in the day the police drove the roughs out of the place and managed to restore order.