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Show BRITISH STRIKERS FLAUNTRED FLAG RIOTING OCCURS WHEN UN-EMPLOYED UN-EMPLOYED TRY TO BREAK THROUGH POLICE GUARD. Mounted Police Called Cut to Assist Bobbies in Struggle With Enraged Crowd, at Least Fifty Being Injured in Encounter. London. As a result of the coal strike, disorder occurred Monday afternoon af-ternoon in Downing street. At least fifty persons were injured in attempts to break through a police cordon and others were hurt when some stonework stone-work from a window on the treasury building fell. The situation which developed in Whitehall at the entrance to Downing Down-ing street was an ugly one. There were a thousand unemployed there. The disorder started when the unemployed unem-ployed demonstrators tried to break through the heavy police guard and get into Downing street. It was during dur-ing this rush, that the window stones from the treasury crashed down. Police reinforcements were rushed up and mounted police were called out to assist the regulars. At least two of the police and several sev-eral civilians, including a woman, -were injured in the early attempts of the crowd to get through the cordon. Finally Fin-ally the crowd began to throw stones. The parapet on one side of Downing street also collapsed during the crush. A number of persons were injured when a crowd headed by the red flag of the Tottenham district Socialist and Labor party made a determined rush and tried to break through the police. Eventually the red flag was captured. At the same time a small party of demonstrators went to the neighboring neighbor-ing Trafalgar square, set up a red flag, sang the Internationale and cheered Lenine and Trotsky. No trouble developed de-veloped here. However, the police not interfering. In Whitehall the police finally dispersed the rioters. Fifty injured persons were given treatment when uhe trouble ended. Twenty of these were sent to hospitals. |