Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-04
n,DEEIANT REDS
London AnarchIsts Created Lively Seem
In TrafalRar Square.

In trafalgar square,
LONDON, Dec. 4.-The good and bad peo-
pie of London were treated to a sight
rarely seen in England. 1t was little less
than anarchy bidding a bold defiance to
the law. and the authorities making dis
play 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 that they in
tended to holi meeting in Trafalgar
square.
Such a thing could not be tolerated, said
the Right Hon. Henry Asquith, and be
promptly issued instructions to the police
ordering the chief commissioner, Sir Ed
ward Bradford, to take the steps necessary
to prevent the meeting from taking place.
The anarchists thereupon declared their
intention of holding the meeting in spite
of the authorities. They made good their
threat, too, for they gathered there, though
the four sides of the square were black with
police, mounted and on foot.
This display of force caused many thou
sands of people to flock to the neighbor-
hood of Trafalgar square, and the front OF
the National gallery WAS soon so packed
with people that it was utterly impossible
for vehicle to pass through the crowds
unless assisted by the mounted police. The
gathering of these crowds was just what
the anarchists wanted and it enabled them
to do more toward spreading their fiery
literature and thNeby ventilating their
dynamite doctrines Ian any meeting which
they could have held upon the square would
have done. Male and female anarchists
mixed among the thousands of people as
sembled about the square and began hawk
ing anarchistic literature, which, owing to
the novelty of the situation, found a ready
sale among the people assembled.
Finally large and excited crowd of an
archists and socialists collected inside the
square. Among them were noticed many
of the lower class of foreigners-French-
men, Germans, Russians, Spaniards and
Italians-many of them wearing SLOUGH
hats and red neckties, thus causing con-
siderable excitement in the neighborhood.
Nicol, the anarchist leader, was a promi-
nent figure. The police by twos and threes
kept moving about the square, ana thus
they compelled the anarchists to move on,
| apparently determined that no addresses
| should be made.
At exactly 10 minutes past 3, as if by pre-
arranged signal, a number of anarchists
made a rush for the steps at the foot of the
Gordon statue, and one of their number
| Immediately began to make a wild address
to those who had rushed up to the steps
with him, but the anarchist orator had
hardly uttered his first sentence before q
number of policemen charged up to the
spot and dislodged the reds from the steps
scattering them in all directions in the
most lively manner.
| Eventually the anarchists on the sQuart
became so demonstrative that a further
detachment of 80 policemen was sent K
the square, and with the officers already
there assembled they formed double
Gordon around the Nelson monument
Shortly after the police made a determined
| charge and cleared the square.
Later in the afternoon "A large body o
anarchists made a dangerous rush dowI
Parliament street with the intention o
reaching Scotland Yard, the headquarter
of the police, which was said to have beef
left with only IA small guard of policemen
but the superintendent of the division o
police promptly dispatched a strong fore
of mounted and foot police there, tn
horsemen reaching that point before tn
anarchists, and with the assistance of tn
police on foot the dangerous mob was scat
tered after much scuffling.