CHARGE OF CAVALRY
INFANTRY USE BOMBS WASHINGTON, July 29. Troops hurled tear-gas bombs and set the shacks of the Bonus Army afire in the vicinity of the Capitol again on Friday afternoon at a time when President Hoover at the White House was serving an emphatic notice that “Tho Government cannot be coerced by’ mob rule.” The President said that he considered tho disturbance on Thursday a challenge to tho authority of the United States Government, which had been met swiftly and firmly. As tho President read the statement the cavalrymen who har returned to Third St and Pennsylvania Avenue clashed with a group of veterans gathered around a baseball diamond. The troopers charged, scattering them. Some ran off and climbed trees. One plunged headlong through tho open window of a passing automobile as he ran. After the cavalry halted the infantry swept the street with gas bombs. There was no resistance, except that some refused to move unti’ tear gas was used The cavalry kept the streets clear of spectators. As a great roll of smoke poured out of the block into nearby residences, a strong wind fanned the flames and the shacks burned fiercely.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 179, 1 August 1932, Page 7
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