WHIT MONDAY
PAGEANT.AND PROCESSION AN UGLY INCIDENT AT PRESTON. I*f Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrlfil** "TJmos” and Sydney "Sun” Services.. (Received J une 3, B.SO a.m.) LONDON, June 2. In connection with a Whit Monday pageant and .procewsion of Qatholici Guilds at Preston, permission to carry a statue of the Madonna and Child was refused. The Catholics, however, persisted in believing that thej had legal rights, and the' statue was carried. A crowd surged along the rout© of the procession, and oranges, eggs, and stones were thrown. A man tried to overthrow _the statue, but he was knocked out. “800-boos” were drowned in an enthusiastic demonstration ' by the majority of the spectators. ,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8750, 4 June 1914, Page 7
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109WHIT MONDAY New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8750, 4 June 1914, Page 7
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