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Southland Times, Issue 21851, 31 October 1932, Page 7

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LONDON RIOTERS. FOURTEEN MEN IN COURT.' VARIOUS CHARGES. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, October 28. As a sequel to the disorderly episodes connected with the Hyde Park demonstration 14 men appeared in the London Police Courts on various charges. With two exceptions all gave London addresses, and apparently did not take part in the march to London from various parts of the country. Two were sentenced to six months’ hard labour for assaulting the police, and fines of £5 and 20/- were imposed on two others for obstructing the police. One prisoner was discharged and the remainder were remanded.

ORDEAL FOR POLICE FUSILLADE OF IRON BOLTS. London, October 28. In the House of Commons Sir John Gilmour (Home Secretary) said that 12 arrests were made and 19 police and 58 demonstrators were injured in yesterday’s disturbances, in which iron bolts were thrown at the police, who found in a motor lorry 150 ash staves, some of them being nail-studded. Sir John Gilmour said the Lancashire unemployed contingent to Hyde Park was accompanied by a lorry and when the police searched it they found 154 ash sticks, some with nails protruding, under foodstuffs. The presence of such weapons could only be deliberate. Another motor van somehow obtained entrance to the Park and the police saw cudgels unloaded therefrom. It also contained sticks. Missiles found after the disturbance included iron bolts and stones, an eighteen inch jemmy and an open clasp knife. The police had behaved with great forbearance. They had shepherded the people in the streets with care and had conducted them in the evening to places of shelter. The greater part of these difficulties had not been caused by genuine unemployed. (Cheers.) INQUIRY SOUGHT LETTER TO MR MACDONALD. (Rec. 7.5 p.m.) London, October 30. After finding that the House of Commons was not sitting, a deputation of hunger marchers, including women carrying a haversack, called at No. 10 Downing Street with a letter asking Mr Speaker to receive the delegation at the Bar of the House, petitioning against the economy cuts and revealing appalling conditions of millions of unemployed, also a letter to Mr MacDonald requesting a public inquiry into the Hyde Park incidents and the immediate release of the prisoners. A special messenger conveys a second letter to Mr MacDonald, who is out of town. The marchers, eating oranges, then returned to headquarters.