RIOTS IN LONDON

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18778, 28 October 1932, Page 8

RIOTS IN LONDON

FORTY IN THE HOSPITAL. ( JWELVE ARREBTS MADE. BAIN RESTORES REASON. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received October 28, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, October 27. Forty were treated in the hospitals In connection with the Hyde Park rioting. Twelve arrests, were made. • A heavy downpour of rain in the evening ended the attempts of the Communists to foment disorders, damping the ardour of even the most pugnacious. Parliament House is strongly guarded. • Mr J. McGovern (Independent Labour member for Shettlestone), is to present a petition in the House or Commons in which the hunger marchers ask for access to the bar of the House on' November 1 to plead the cause of 3,000,000 unemployed. Mr McGovern will then submit a motion to the House to agree to hear the marchers. TRAFFIC DISLOCATED. MANY UGLY EPISODES. INNOCENT PEOPLE SUFFER. united Pri>«3 Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright, (Received Oct. 28, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 27. About 15,000 unemployed including hunger marchers gathered in Hyde Park, causing a disorganisation of the traffic in West End streets for several hours. The meetings were concentrated on »ix platforms widely separated. Mr Saklatvala and Mr Tom Mann were among the speakers. The most serious trouble occurred at the Marble Arch, where Lord Trenchard, Commissioner of police, had stationed parties of special constables. The marchers, angry at their presence began a threatening rush towards the specials. There were a number of ugly episodes resulting in 23 being injured in clashes between the police and unemployed, including a policeman who was seriously injured by a bar of iron. In other cases the rioters broke windows of! Oxford Street sho(ps, using building bricks and lumps of cdal from an overturned cart.

Apart from a few broken heads, the worst result was the frightened women shoppers who unexpectedly found thems-UrCy involved in a riot in which mounted police cleared the Btreets by walking their horses on the pavements. A number of innocents were knocked down, necessitating the use of ambulances.

Inside the park further trouble developed in Rotten Row where a party of angry Communists seized a handful of mud and gravel and flung it at the mounted police. The latter drew their batons and dispersed them. By 5.15 p.m. all eleven columns of hunger strikers had left the park and marched to the suburbs where they were billeted in the houses of sympathisers. Many were obviously suffering from extreme fatigue. The leaders tried to cheer them up by tinging songs.