VIRTUAL MARTIAL LAW.

Wairarapa Age, 30 July 1932, Page 5

VIRTUAL MARTIAL LAW.

TEAR GAS USED FREELY BY TROOPS. SYSTEMATIC CLEARANCE OF CAMPS. (Received Friday, 8.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 28. lor the first time since the Civil War the capital of the United States was toUn< ? eT Vlrtual martial law, with 500 Regular Army troops, including i a . fantry, cavalry, machine gun, tanks and engineering detachments, patrolling the city, apparently prepared to continue the offensive against the bonus expeditionary force. The latter to-dav thousand of them from lederal buildings in the down-town area, after fighting throughout the day between the police and veterans, in which one veteran was killed and two 8 ( 13r - in . jured ’ and one policeman senously injured. A score of policemen and veterans, including one woman attached to the army, were slightly injured or tear-gassed . When the veterans learned that the military were coming to take charge, they greeted "Soia- WS With eheerin « and predicted: Soldiers won’t molest soldiers ” Many looked forward to the good oldfashioned Army food ration. Instead, the soldiers, after donning steel helmets and gas masks, proceeded systematically to evict the veterans, usinv tear-gas bombs freely on the slightest of eatnl 6 ' ° n th ® streets . squadrons vete-„n ry ! re . peated, y charged the ' ata -ans, slapping them with the flats of their sabres when they were not moving fast enough. Soon after dark as some six hundred troop reinforcements were available from a nearby eamp, it appeared that General MaT Arthur was prepared to continue the offensive against tho suburban camp at Anacostia, which was reported in complete ehaos, all semblance of leads'.?’w having disappeared, although an effort was being made to evacuate women and children, who numbered more than five hundred. tlJ?w‘ >r i at midni ® ht , military ‘ns a heav - v ba >™go of tear ° Illis was sufficient to effect a general evacuation of Anacostia. Bv the light of the burning shacks which months o 'th hC ’ r hOmM f ° r ,he P ast two months, the weary and liungrv veterans strean ‘ l in B in "Il directions, apdinr« 7 c ® mpl( ;J el y disorganised. Soldiers are heavily patrolling all the tu V rn Uat S m a li reaS ‘° thair - although I' - Ca T ar ° stiU unvisited, tarv will ls anderst °o d that the miliston t 11 th 0 "l t 0 and not nwJ 4 last ve teran has left Government property. It is feared tent States, menace averted.

OPINION OF CHIEF OF STAFF. (Received Friday, 9.50 p.m.) , WASHINGTON, July 29. StaTTU’W Mae Ar thur, Chief of ? °( tho United States Army, who is m Charge of the evacuation of the e ?P Tess<,d a belief on Fnday morning that "the Government

would have been threatened” hud not President Hoover ordered the troops out on Thursday. CAMP SET ON FIRE. (Received Frida;-, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, .luh- >8 troops began setting fire to the Anacostia camp of the Bonus Army late to-mght.