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Show SMASH !i BOLSHEViK Hundreds of Soldiers,' Sailors and Marines Break Through Cor- i don to Attack "Reds."! Socialists Flee, but Are ! . i Pursued in All Direc-! tions by Men Who I Wear Yankee Uniform, j XEW YORK, Nov. :!5. Hundreds of j soldiers, sailors and marines broke ( through a cordon of police aurrounding lladison Square tonight and attacked in- j ternalional socialists who had attended a ' mass meeting where Bolshevik doc- trines were expounded. The men and women leaving the hall broke and fled as the' men in uniform charged past the police, but were puwaecl into the side streets in aJ( directions.' The attack on the socialists came at the close of a meeting which threatened from the moment it began to break into a riot. It was called ostensibly to protest pro-test against the execution of Thomas J. Mooney, but Scott N earing:, who presided, pre-sided, and the other speakers devoted most of their attention to pleas for the .release of "political" offenders. RED FLAGS SMUGGLED INTO MADISON GARDEN. Several men and women were arrested for displaying red flags smuggled 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 determination of preventing attacks upon the -government. They were restrained re-strained with difficulty by police and detectives from making an assault on the stage. Scores of fist fights were interrupted in-terrupted by officers. Soldiers and sailors who were unable to get into the -meeting sent out patrols to round up all the men Jn uniform who could be found lo join the charge on the socialists, which had been planned to take place when the oratory was ended and the internationalists started for their homes. STAGE MASS MEETING AND SCORE BOLSHEVIKI Madison Square was the rallying point for the military. They quickly staged an impromptu mass meeting, at1 which speakers denounced the Bolshevik!. "They were cheered not only by the men in uniform uni-form but by civilian sympathizers. When someone called upon "loyal Americans" to charge the garden and attack the internationalists, in-ternationalists, several hundred responded. respond-ed. They were driven back, however, by mounted police and men ou foot who had surrounded the building. Realizing that they had failed in the first attack, the soldiers and sailors resumed re-sumed their meeting and awaited the arrival of reinforcements. Probably 1000 men of.both branches of the service had assembled by the time the meeting adjourned. ad-journed. The opening of the doors of the gar-den gar-den was the signal for a second charge, which the police were unable to repel. The soldiers and sailors fought their way past swinging night sticks and attacked at-tacked the socialists, who had p-eked the big building. j WOMEN CLAW AND ; J SCRATCH SERVICE MEN. j I Almost instantly the p'juare was tilled i j with yelling, running, fighting men. The t 1 s. Teams of women, most of them wear- ! ins? red roses op carnations in lieu of j i the forbidden flag.", rc-e above the dm ! las they clawed ;md scratched the poJ- J ; diers and .ihTs who were pummelinc j ; the rial" socialist?. " i j Mourned pcifce. reinforced by automo- I bile loads of reserves rushed from eve;-y j ; slation house within a radius of miie-. sirugcled valiantly to c'.ear the square. , but made little profrres. Soldiers and sailors, thoroughly angered by what th.y considered an insidious attack crt thp flag they had sworn to defend, p;iid j little attention to blows from night : sticks. They were bent on getting re- i venge from the Internationalists, and t many of them succeeded. i The so,uare was cleared of milling ! men orly when socialists by ones and t '-s a nd in groups bro-r- and fled. The ! jcrt mras.ee hi the park thou v.-?. ; ; (Continued on Fa-;e Three.) SMASH BOLSHEVIK 1 MEET II KEW YORK (Continued From Page Or.e.) ferred on a smaller scale into every neighboring street. Groups of socialists soon were running along Fifth avenue, a half mile "north and south of Twenty-sixth street, pursued pur-sued by shouting uniformed men, most of them hatless and coatless. When they went to the meeting the men. almost without exception, wore red neckties, because red flags were -under official ban. These red ties were the special mark of soldiers and sailors. After Af-ter the fight they were cherished as souvenirs. Hundreds of the socialists were beaten, but so far as could be learned none was seriously hurt. The police had the situation well in hand half an hour after the close of the meeting, and the street was cleared except for stragglers. United States Marshal McCarthy and police inspectors were inclined to Idame the uniformed men for the trouble. They declared the meeting would have proceeded pro-ceeded peacefully enough, in .spite of the more or less explosive speeches, had it not been for the soldiers and sailors. Four men and two women had been arrested for displaying red flags within an hour after the opening of the meeting. meet-ing. Two sailors had been taken into custody for the threatening attitude they assumed toward the socialists. Tense Atmosphere. Tiie atmosphere in the garden was tense long before Nearing opened the meeting. Pandemonium .broke loose when the band, after playing tiie "Star-Spangled llanner" and tiie "Marseillaise," swung into the "International" and a Russian revolutionary revolu-tionary song. Shouts, of "f-ong live the International !"' were followed bv hooins and hissing, when the police, seizing red flags, suddenly- displayed, marched their owners from the auditorium. Then minor, but simultaneous conflicts, broke out in various parts of the hall. All the speakers pleaded with the audience audi-ence to remain calm. Xearing stating that there were persons only too eager to "d is nipt" the meeting. These warnings, however, were disregarded disre-garded whenever the red flag made its appearance. Red Flag Dropped. After Nearing predicted "a bitter taste of job hunting this winter.'" anil assailed the "capitalistic press" and other "indications "indi-cations of plutocracy.'' he raised a deafening deaf-ening applause when he said: "During the next leu days Mr. "Wilson will go to Europe to use his efforts to make the world safe for democracy. At least we may ask Mr. "Wilson to grant a general pardon to all political and class war prisoners before he sails for Kurope. ' Then a red flag, bearing in white letters let-ters the words. "Withdraw allied troops from Russia." was dropped from the balcony, bal-cony, and after this had been removed and two more displayed from another part of the balcony, marines and sailors, forming in a flying wedge, rushed down the main aisle and past the police up Into the balcony. From the outside their comrades hurled themselves against a side door and nearly succeeded in bursting burst-ing into the auditorium. Two resolutions were adopted at the meetins. The first endorsed "the plan of action suggested by organized labor bodies on the Pacific coast" to nrevent "Tom" Mooney from hanging. The second sec-ond extended "Our fraternal greetings to the Socialists of ("lermany." protester! against armed intervention "in the internal inter-nal affairs of the German people," demanded de-manded the return of American and allied j troops from Russian territory, and pledged the audience to "work with devotion and fervor until th industrial republic of, America takes its place among the Indus- trially free nations of the world." |