CUP TIE RIOT.
REPORT BY PARK BOARD “NO FORCE COULD COPE WITH RUSH.” By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 1, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. A special meeting of the .Board of the Umpire Exhibition lias issued a report on the Wembley scenes, stating that the trouble was due entirely to the unprecedented crowd, which was three times greater than anticipated. All reasonable steps, the report says, were taken to obtain order, and nearly 50*0 police, in addition to mounted police, together with 200 officers, were present. The traffic arrangements were so admirable that tens of thousands of people landed on the seen j with extraordinary rapidity. Once the crowd rushed the barriers, no force could adequately cope with it.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17029, 1 May 1923, Page 1
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