The London Riots.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1806, 12 March 1886, Page 2

The London Riots.

It is quite clear from the full details of the riots in London received by the Frisco mail, that these disturbances chiefly originated owing to many thousands of working men and their families being unemployed aud almost starving. All the reports concur in stating that never before in the present generation has snob a disturbance occurred in London, yet with so little loss of blood. Some officials declared that upward of fifty thousand men must have been rioting for at least six hours, with absolute posseseion of every thoroughfare they chose to invade. Yet no life is reported to have been taken. The city was tborodghly excited, but the mob was essentially English. It made a frighfol demonstration, was not resisted, apd went to bed at the nenal time. According to the lowest estimate, 160,000 persona were engaged in the Trafalgar Square demonstration. Two thirds of the crowd consisted of bona fide unemployed working men, the remainder being So&lUte.