Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-10
many ARE INJURED
IN R|0T|NG AS MEN
ARE TAKEN TO JAIL
One Bobby" Has FRACTURED
Skull and Others Sc
we're Wounds.
SOLDlERS AND SAILORS
ARE SENT TO HOSPITAL
Angry Mob Storms Bow Street
Station, Demanding Re-
lease of Prisoners.
SEVERELY CLUB DoUGHBoYs
Canadians and Australian Join AZ.
fray, Which Starts Near
EaSlc Hut.
CLUB DouGHBors
Canadians and Austria lians Join AZ.
fray, Which Starts Near
EaSlc Hut.
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LONDON, March e.--As result OF
a serious riot this afternoon. in which
American soldiers and sailors ant
Canadian and Australian troops made
common cause against the military
police. Policeman p. c. Field is tonight
in critical condition with frao.
tured skull, four other policemen arr
suffering from scalp wounds and fyt
American soldiers and sailors are. nurs.
ing club wounds at the Lanca ster Cate
Red Cross hospital.
Twenty American soldiers and sailors
are under arrest. ordered by Provost
Marshal Major Campbell. .
Inspector Wilson, in charge of the
the center OF the disturbance, Just gave
me this Statement: s->H
I'VE have made every preparation
to resist further attacks on me polipss
a double Gordon of "bobbies,, n L.
blocking each approacits tor Bow street
in the direction Of the sta ation, and
all policemen In the district walkSsin
couples, ~
Meanwhile there is bitterness on tile
part Of the American sailors resulting
from hours OF sporadic lighting IN
.Adwych Street. I
TROUBLE STARTS WHEN
POLICE RAID GAME
The trouble started about / o'clock
wien a policeman raided. a sailors
behind the. Eagle Hut. ~
In ld-timc form the dice were
passed" when the bobby" appeared
on the. scene. He arrested a sailor
who swore he Was Innocent. and.
standing on the steps of Eagle Hut,
dared the policeman TO arrest him,
a second sailor was arrested on the
same charge. Both were taken to Bow
Street station.
About 500 sailors from the Eastley,
Iiarwich and Tilbury docks in London
were present, and about $50 we.o
rests were made. What happened inir
mediately thereafter was told to- me
by Inspector Wilson as follows:
"A little after ! o'clock crowd of
Australians appeared in front OF the
station, and deputation entered my.
office demanding the Immediate release
or tho two sailors. aT
II answered | was unable to rclcas ia
them, but would turn them over to tho
American provost marshal
THREATEN TO Pull. DOWN
MADE BY THE SOLDIERS
We'll pull your whole station down
ii you don't release them. threatened
the man, and ! ordered the station,
cleared. sly.i
The policemen did not treat then,
any too gently" added Inspector VII.
mysolf was passing down the
Strand and happened to drop into tho
midst OF the riot at 1:16 O'Clock. Ald-
wych Street. the Eagle Hut. one sido
or the Aldwtych Theater and .the .Aus-
tralian headquarters opposite wcTa
surging with lighting mob, with
policemen backed UP against Itha
strand 81 ana, rheater, as making baton charges
and Canadians. Tho instant the trolI-
ole started the Australians Sc. up he
war cry Mob! mob" and came pour
Ing out OF their headquarters to Join
ine Americans swarmins from the
MEN ARE CLUBBED AND
bEATEN WITHOUT MERCY
However, responsible the sailors
and soldiers may have been for start
ing the trouble. as a spectator / may
say that the London police lost their
hcadS in their rage and clubbcd tbo
men unmercifully.
one instance particularly that no.
.ieed u, which tho police were hot.
man Corporal Zimmerman Company
:42, from the Winchester camp Iirh-
norman ran out of the Eagle Hut in
an attempt to stop the sailors charge,
against the police, but husky bobby,
swung at zimmerman without 1ucs-
tionins him. zimmerman reached for
joined his assailant. and the three ham
mercd away at him with their clubs
~ seaman named Pickcns. who hails
from New York City, rushed to Zin,-
mermans ASSISTANCE and fought until
dazed by a blow from a club.
unconscious condition into Bow Street
sta ation.