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Show MEN IN UNIFORM DOWN RED FLAG 80LDIER8, 8AILOR8 AND MARINES MA-RINES BREAK UP DOL8HEVIK MEETING IN NEW YORK. Break Through Cordon of Police and Attack International Socialists Who Were Expounding Bolshevjk Doctrines. Now York. Hundreds of soldiers, sailors and marines broko through a cordon of pollco surrounding Madison Square Monday night nnd attacked International In-ternational socialists who had attended attend-ed n mass' meeting where Bolshovlk doctrines wero cxpoundod. The men and women leaving tho hall broko nnd fled as tho men In uniform charged past tho pollco, but were pursued Into the side strocts in all directions. Tho attack on tho socialists, came at tho closo of a meeting which threatened threat-ened from tho moment It began to break Into a riot. It was called ostensibly os-tensibly to protest against tho execution execu-tion of Tliomns J. Mooncy, but Scott Noarlng, wha presided, and tho other spenkers devoted most of their attention atten-tion to pleas for tho release of Apolitical" Apolit-ical" offenders. Several men and women wcro arrested arrest-ed for displaying red flags smuggled Into tho Garden in defiance of nn edict; .by- Mayor Hylan. Largo numbers ot' men In uniform entered Uie building beforo tho ((oors wcro locked with tho, ivowe'd determination of preventing attacks at-tacks npon tho government. They wcro restrained with difficulty by pollco po-llco nnd detectives from mnk'lng an ns-i suit on the stage. Scores otflst fights wcro interrupted by officers. Soldiers, Bailors nnd marines then' gnthcrcd and, breaking through the' pollco guard, drovo tho socialists from tho meeting place. Mounted police, rclnforcd by automobile auto-mobile loads of reserves, rushed from, every station nouso witnin a rauius of miles, struggled valiantly to clear tho Square, but mado little progress. Soldiers nnd sailors, thoroughly un-ecrcd un-ecrcd by wluit they considered nn Insidious' In-sidious' attack on tho flag they had) sworn to dofend, paid llttlo attention to blows from night sticks. They wcro bent on getting revenge from the internationalists, in-ternationalists, and many of them succeeded. |