The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-12-04
BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
Rabid London Anarchists Dis.
persed by Police.
1T WAS A VERY oNE-sIDED AFFAIR

persed by R0lloe.
1T WAS A VERY 0NE-sIDED AFFAIR
Tho Reds Ignored the Orders of HONG
Secretary Asquith Forbidding Their
Sunday Meeting, aud Make 1t Lively
for a Big Police force.
LONDON, Dec. 4.-The good and bad peo-
pie OF London were treated yesterday ar
ternoon to a sight rarely seen in England.
1t was little less than anarchy bidding a
bold defiance to the law, and the authori-
ties making a display Of police calculated
TO strike terror into the hearts of the evil
minded.
1t all came about through the announce
ment made by the anarchists of this me-
tropolis, to the effect that they intended
to hold meeting in Trafalgar square, at
the head of Whitehall street, where the
government offices are in the main sit
uated, and not far from the residences of
the most aristocratic and within rifle shot
of the palace Of royalty.
The anarchists have held meetings on
Trafalgar square for several Sundays
past, but the government did not think it
the matter was brought up in the house
of commons This was on account of
their open advocacy of blood and dyna-
mite and their Endorsement Of the BARGE
Iona and Marseilles outrages. The police
were thereupon ordered to suppress yes
terday's meeting, and the anarchists an
nounced that they would defy the prohi
bition.
| They began to muster at 3 o'clock in
the afternoon, though the four sides of
the square were black with police,
mounted and on foot. This display Of
force caused many thousands of people to
flock to the neishborhood of Trafalgar
square, and the front of the National gal
lery was soon 80 packed with people that
81 was utterly impossible for n vehicle to
pass through the crowds unless assisted
by the mounted police. The gathering of
these crowds was just what the anarchists
wanted, IA IL enabled them to do more to-
wards spreading their fiery literature and
yeutilate their dynamite doctrines than
any meeting which they could have held
upon the square would have done. Male
and female anarchists mixed among the
thousands of people assembled about the
square, and began hawking anarchistio
literature, which, owing to the novelty OF
the situation, found ready sale among
I the people assembled
Copies Of The Commonweal, the organ
of the anarchists OF London, found ready
sale in the crowds. its frontispiece being
nm illustration OF Labor, us Samson, pull
ing down the pillars of church and state
This specimen Of anarchist literature alsC
contained an article headed "Bombs, and
in which the writer welcomed the BARGE
l. e I al,
a "great and good net, +" and gloried in the
fact that thirty people were killed and
eighty injured By dynamite bombs thrown
into the audience assembled upon that oc
casion.
Gradually tho number of socialists and
anarchists gathered about the square was
so augmented that they gained courage
enough to push towards the center of the
square, which place they had previously
fought shy of, owing to the large number
Of policemen stationed around Finally
large and excited crowd of anarchists ant
socialists collected inside the square
Among them were noticed many of tn,
lower class of foreigners, French, Ger
mans, Russians, Spaniards and Italians
many of them wearing SLOUGH hats an.
red neckties.
Nirol, the anarchist leader, was prom
inent figure among those Of the same man
ner of thinking as himself who gathered
upon Trafalgar square yesterday after
noon. The police, by twos and threes, KEEP
moving about the square, and thus com
4 PEELED the anarchists to 7move on, ;" appar
4 emily determined that no addresses SHOULD
3 be made. This caused the anarchists t,
wave their hats and boot the police, Will
!. some of the spectators cheered and other
Kissed, according to the nature of thei
opinions.
Shortly after 8 o'clock, as il by prear
ranged signal, number of anarchist
made rush for the steps at the foot o
the Gordon statue, and one Of their mum
Der Immediately began to make y wild nd
dress The anarchist orntor had hardl.
n uttered his first sentence before a humble
J of policemen charged up to the spot an,
dislodged the reds from the steps, scatter
ing them in all directions in the mos
lively manner amid the cheers of the vas
majority Of the crowds assembled abou
the square in order to see the demonstra
ton.
Eventually the anarchists on the squar
become so demonstrntive that n furthe
detachment of fifty policemen was sent
the square. Suddenly an anarchist rushe
ument aud began to address the crow
ground him, but he had only uttered
few words when stslwart policeman
seized him and thew him bodily into til
crowd. As the anarchist still tried I
speak he was seized by two policeme
and hustled off to the nearest police sta
ton, followed by "A shouting crowd.
Shortly before $3.50 a further detachmer
of mounted police was summoned to I'll
Trafalgar square, aud after drawing Il
in line the mounted police charged upo
the anarchists. scattering them in all d
rections. At o'clock the square wa
% practically cleared of anarchists, but the
ID had collected in groups about the street
leading to the square, and about 4:3O
: large body of anarchists made DANCE
= Gus rush down Parliament street with til
intention of reaching Scotland Yard, I'll
headquarters of tho police, Mounted p
lice reached that point before the al
y archists, and with the assistance of Il
a police on foot the dangerous mob W;
scattered after much scuttiing.
In other parts of Trafalgar square Il
police had their hands full in keeping I'll
Il, crowds in movement, SO much so that a
ditional reinforcements of mounted poll
were sent for and they made sever
charges down adjoining streets, DuriI
the afternoon they made a number of a
rests the prisoners in all cases being &c
lowed to the stations by angry and c
cited crowds of anarchists, who loud
cursed the home secretary, Mr.. Henry a
qnith, and who uttered all kinds of threa
as to what they were going to do in ord
TO be revcnged upon that official. FINAL
at about 5 O'Clock, the dangerous portit
of the mob dispersed, without serious i
Jury to either side. One or two perso
=, were trampled under the hoofs of Il