SCENES AT BULL FIGHT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21040, 31 May 1930, Page 13

SCENES AT BULL FIGHT

PROTESTERS ENTER ARENA. DRIVEN OUT BY GENDARMES. SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 29. • (Received May 30, at 0.30 p.m.) The Paris correspondent of the Daily Moil says that 10,000 spectators at a bull fight which was arranged at Melun in aid of scholastic charities got far more excitement than they anticipated when 500 men, women, and girl members of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ League tried to stop the spectacle, despite the annonneement that the bulls would not be killed. The protesters rushed to the front rows armed with police whistles, and when the picadors appeared mounted on horses 'whose flanks were bleeding from spurs, the members of the league, led by a pretty girl, scrambled into the bull ring and linked hands, cutting off the picadors from the bulls’ enclosure. Pandemonium broke out, and the spectators rose to their feet, howling. There were free fights in the ring, and the arena gates were opened and a squadron of mounted gendarmes charged tho protesters, while foot police pulled them out of the arena amid cheers from. the crowd. The members of the league threw smoke bombs into the arena and fresh fighting began. Meantime, an aeroplane which tho league.had chartered hovered overhead. The picadors and matadors rushed to shelter, but a bull seized an opportunity to charge a matador whom the members of the league thrust back into the arena while he was climbing a fence, to which he hung on desperately. .The gendarmes won the battle after many had been injured.", . - The bull fight was concluded, but it is expected that the affair will raise the legality of bull .fights in France;