The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-10-21
80 INJURED
LONDON RIOTS
FLY RED 1[le
Mob e 10000 Rush Ponos
When Unemployed Stage
Parade-0ray Haired Mom-
enlin Crowd.

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London, Oct. fs.-only tbreS
coal miners In all the Unieea
Kingdom continued TO WORK
Monday. They were threS moi
of Westmoreland who own and
operate q little pit SAIL their oWK.
They have notified their eustoIk-
ers that "there will be no ceeaa-
ton Of productionr from their
mine.
. They do not belong = II.
union.
London. Oct. 1s.-London's great
parade of unemployed. intended to 6S
a quiet and peaceful demonstration I'd
parliament, broke bounds suddenly
Monday afternoon and developed Into
the worst stick-and- stone battle be-
tween metropolitan boobies and ciy-
ilians since the modern labor move-
ment began.
When the hobbies, mounted and on
%Scctar had fir,stiiy cleared whitehall
and Downing street of the rioters and
curious, to the number OF about 10000
it was found hat SO persons had ReaA
injured. There were more &c s..s tie =
in all probability, but they had .
moved themselves or had been sup
ported away by sympathizers.
The riot raj divided into two
stages.
Mayors Led Crowds.
First came the demonstrants, thou,
sand Of them from each quarter Qf
London n each group led through
the streets by it's respective borough
mayor. These masses OF unemployed,
gathering hundreds of recruits every
block of the march, finally met Oh
the Victoria embanknent, along the
River Thames. about a mile from the
house Of parliament in Westminster.
So far, aside from some jeering and
horse-play, everything was peace
able. Melted together on the
bankment, the unemployed were ex-
pected te wait there, a mile from par
lament, while their mayors, Is In
number. went to Westminster to con-
fer with Premier Lloyd George re-
garding amelioration. Of theindustrial
situation.
The mayors departed. When their
leaders were out of sight the dem
onstrants began to feel their respon-
sibility. Instead of keeping a gap Of
one mile between themselves and
Westminster as parades are supposed
to do, individuals by the thousands
began to drift toward the prime min
listers residence, at No 10, Downing
street.
Before they realized what had hap
pened, the police Oh post in White
hall to regulate ordinary traffic found
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tide Of men, women and boys. Feel
ing their numbers, the irrespressibles
in the crowd became unruly M
surly. The police ordered that they
be cleared out of Whithall which is a
government buildings in which all he
important departments are housed.
Then the Trouble Came.
Then the riot began. Stones flew
from out of the crowd and the police
drew their riot sticks and swung at
the front ranks. But the pressure of
oncoming mobs was now so great that
those in ron could not go back.
From Downing street to T. lfalgar
Square, a half a mile, Whitehall was
solid with humanity. Mounted police
appeared and hurled their horses into
the front ranks, swinging their clubs.
Men went down INC the van of the
mob managed to crowd back q short
distance.
Then began the second stage. Mad
dened by the beatings from the police.
the crowds reformed and attacked.
The horsemen We're hurled back by
the weight Of the mob. Stones pelted
about them and this ammunition was
so scarce in hat well-kept district
that the attackers even dived under
the hOOfs Of the horses to recover
missiles to hurl again.
Red Flags Flown.
On h outskirts of the surge, red
flags were waving and hoarse voices
took up the chant of the Information
ale" with it's refrain of well keep
the red flag flying here"
Gray-haired men and women strug-
gled in the mob. One bobby smashed
a o~ne-legged soldier in the face as the
soldier, carried along by pressure
behind. was thrown against the po-
liceman. This was at the entrance
to Downing street, a narrow short
thoroughfare leading into the foreign
office. The u1fortunates there were
there against their will for Downing
street was the neck of the bottle and
these people were being siphoned into
the forbidden area.
G~ray-haired women were thrown
down and trampled on to be dragged
out unconscious. A dozen people were
injured When the weight Of the crowe
broke away a stone railing, letting
people down into the depressed area
way, 10 feet deep. The broken ma,
sorry provided more ammunition for
the brick-throwers and the fight be-
came more vigorous.
Inside the q~uardrangular courtyard
of the foreign office a number Of
ambulance trucks drew up to receive
the wounded and the prisoners.
TURK OFFICIAL QUITS.
Constantinople, d, Oct. Is. - amad
Ferid Pasha. Turkish grand Yizer.