The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-09
Clubs and Fists Used Freely
I on Heads of Soviet DEM
+ OnstratOrs.
FIVE ARRESTS MADE
Speaker HOwling Defiance
of United States Taken
as He Talks.
LITERATURE Is SEIZED
One Banner Read, "DepOrt Us
to Russia; There We Shall
Be Free"

More than a hundred mounted po-
Ecemen and foot patrolmen. with
swinging clubs and punching fists,
rode and walked into a crowd Of 5000
Reds gathered in Washington Square
Yesterday afternoon to praise the So
Wet Government Of Russia and send
their love to Trotzky and Lenine, and
smashed so many heads that the
meeting was broken up almost before
1t had time to start.
During the first two or three min
utes Of the meeting Of protest" 1t
was one of the biggest Red demon
STATIONS ever staged in New York;
when the police got going and the
thud of the nghtstick and the crash
vi the coppers fists were heard as they
fell upon shaggy head and whis-
kered jaw. it became the biggest rout
Of Reds the city ever saw.
The mob formed about 2:3o o'clock,
apparently under the leadership of one
Anthony Topsolsl:y Of Greenpoint.
who harangued his fellow Reds from
the vantage point of the park fence,
but two or three minutes later three
detectives Of the Bomb Squad came
along and tried to break up the meet
ing Their efforts were not success
ful.
Parade Is Cut on.
The Reds, under the leadership of
Topsolsky and others, Haunted their
banners, howled defiance to the United
states, and earnestly engaged in
several little private fights in various
parts of the square. The detectives
slipped out and called for the reserves,
and about the time the reserves left the
station house the Reds decided to pa
rade up Fifth avenue. A
The bowling mob. practically all OF
them yelling their defiance In Yiddisf
and Russian because there were few who
could speak understandable English. had
reached Eighth street when the mounted
policemen appeared. The cops rode di-
rectly at the column. several of the Reds
being knocked down by the hoofs OF the
horses, and those who weren't fast
enough TO get out OF the way were
knocked down by the clubs of the police
men. All the banners that were being
carried at the head OF the column were
seized and destroyed by the police, one
OF them reading. ''Deport US to Russia ;
tere we shall be free" being ripped into
hreds by big Irish police sergeant
Al the frst onslaught of the police the
Reds promptly scattered. taking refuge
on the sidewalks and in the yards of the
residences that line lower Fifth avenue.
Others surged forward from behind,
however, and the cops played no
avorites. They rode calmly down the
street, taking a crack at the head of a
yowling Bolshevist whenever II ap-
peared. About that time the foot police
men. reserves, reached the square and
oesan whaling away at the rear Of the
column Of Reds
None Seriously Hurt.
The policemen followed them. calmly
and methodlcally punching every wills
Eered head that jabbered Russian and
ilodish, and while none OF the Reds
was seriously hurt. many OF them ac-
sulred such painful headaches that they
mad to sit down on the sidewalk and
"s before they could go back uptown.
The police made eight arrests. Ave Of
Hem before the meeting In the square
Deean. Detectives had learned of the
meeting through advertisements which
mao appeared in two Russian news
papers, calling upon all Bolshevists to
My down their work and Join the demon
sVrauon. On the suspicion that the call
tnanated from the Russian Soviet head
quarters, in 1873 East Fifteenth street,
uetectVes OF the bomb squad called
nere on their way to the meeting.
They found quantities OF literature
oelns bundled up as II for carrying In
ne parade and arrested Dora Lipkin OF
ss East Twentieth street. Nicita Ia
,Honia OF 1871 Ferry street, Maspeth
mar schuka OF :si East Seventeenth
street. John Kozlick os Bridgeport.
roon,. and Abe Brook OF SO Norfolk
sueet During tho :eeoting Topsolshy
ss arrested because he was not able
snow a permit to hold a meeting
David Klipper OF 346 East Seventeenth
sueet and Samuel Simon of 80 Seventh
s'reet also were arrested.
Detectives OF the bomb squad ma de
NJ me arrests and took the prisoners To
rvnce headquarters in an automobile,
"nlle the mounted policemen and the re-
TNes were breaking up the meeting
mere they we're charged with disorderiy
Snonet' with the intimation that other
arses will be brought against them as
'n az the District Attorney has made
an Investigation.