Arizona republican., 1918-11-26
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NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-Hundreds of soldiers, sailors and marines broke through a cordon of police surrounding Madison Square Garden tonight, anG attacked international socialists who had attended mass meeting at which bolsheviki doctrines were eXpounded. The men and women leaving the hali broke and fled as the mem in uniform charged past the police, but were pur- sued into the side streets in all direc- tions.
 The attack on the socialists came at the close of a meeting which threat oned, from the moment it began, to break into a riot It was called osten- sibly to protest against the execution of Thomas J. Mooney, but Scott Nearing. who presided, and the other speakers, devoted most of their attention to pleas for the release of political offenders. Several men and women were ar rested for displaying red flags snug Sled into the garden in defiance of an edict by Mayor Hylan. Large numbers of men in uniform entered the building before the doors were locked, with the avowed determinations of preventing at tscks upon the government. They were rcstrained with difficulty by police ana detectives from making an assault on
 
 terrupted by officers.
 Uniformed Men Get Busy
 Soldiers and sailors who were un- able to get into the meeting, sent out patrols to round up all the men in unl- form who could be found, to join the charge on the socialists, which had been planned to take place when the oratory was ended and the information alists started for their homes.
 Madison Square was the rallying point for the military. They quickly staged an impromptu mass meeting ar which speakers denounced the Dol sheviki.' They were cheered, not only by the men in uniform but by civilian sympathizers. When some one called upon loyal Americans" to charge the garden and attack the internationalists, severl hundred responded. They were driven back, however, by mounted police and men on foot, who had surrounded the building. Realizing that they had failed in the first attack, the soldiers and sailors resumed their meeting and awaited the arrival of endorsements Probbly 1000 men of both branches ot the service had assembled by the time the meeting adjourned.
 The opening of the doors of the gar den was the signal for a second charge Whitll lAit PpLlNC WtAt OIeApAC bO ACPNA The soldiers and sailors fought their way past swingingtnight sticks and at- lacked the socialists, who had packed the big building.
 Almost instantly, the square was filled with yelling, running, fighting men. The screams of women, most oi them wearing red roses or carnations in lieu of the forbidden flags, rose above the din as they clawed anc scratched the soldiers and sailors Wns were pummelling the male socialists.
 Resent Flag Aspersions
 Mounted police, reinforced by auto mobile loads of reserves, rushed froI every station house within radius O. miles, struggling valiantly to clear th' square, but made little progress. Sol diers and sailors, thoroughly angereC by what they considered an fnsidiou' attack on the flag they had sworn t defend, paid little attention to blow from night sticks. They were bent ol getting revenge from the international ists and many of them succeeded.
 The square was cleared of militar men only when socialists, by ones an twos and in groups, broke and flec The scrimmage in the park then wa continued on a smaller scale into ever neighboring street.
 Groups of socialists soon were run
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