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November 13, 1887, was 'Bloody Sunday." The Life Guards word brought to Trafalgar Square to put a stop to Free Speech. These are contemporary sketches from The Illustrated London News."

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IFTY years ago yes- their batons indiscriminately on terday Nelson, from the heads of rioters and peaceful his column in Tratal- onlookers carried forward in the rushes.

gar Square, gazed down on The corners of the Strand was the fiercest of the battle- thousands of working men,

grounds. Under fighting Guardsmen and

the

Bover police in the cause of free weight of the crowd the police speech.

were getting to the stage when Iron bars torn from West End they could no longer hold their railings clashed on bayonet and ground, and just before dusk two squadrons of Life Guards Batons cavalry sabre. pitted against bricks and staves, were fetched from Whitehall. A hundred people were wounded Slowly the column of silver, -tivo died-and to this day scarlet and flashing steel forced November 13, 1887, is remem- its way through the surging bered as "Bloody Sunday." snabby crowd. A magistrate

were

From the midst of the trou- who had come with the troops blous present it is not easy to read the Riot Act, but still the **realise that in the eighties crowds could not be scattered.

Britain was perhaps nearer to revolution than at any time in recent years.

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1938.

SOON came Foot Guards.

with bayonets axed and ball cartridge in their pouches. While they lined the north side The youthful Labour move of the Square the cavalry rode ment at times despaired of up and down in the roads. In attaining any of its aims con- half an hour the thousands had stitutionally. London saw the gone, taking with them bleeding first hunger marches, street heads and bruised limbs and leaving hundreds of their com- meetings became battle-grounds. rades under arrest. ALESTINE IS at the pre-In the Western Isles of Scotland sent moment in the throes starving crofters raided the deer forests. In Ireland there were of a revolt fiercer and more riots and suppression of free „JACK HYLTON. destructive than any of the pre-speech, and in Wales the tithe

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vious disorders which have chequered the history of the British Mandate. The acute phase of this new trouble began approximately with the arrival of the Woodhead Commission at the end of April. From that time the situation has grown steadily worse, notwithstanding the despatch of fairly consider- able reinforcements during the past two months. Ambushes, assassinations, explosions, acts of sabolage are of almost daily BALLY-HOOLIGANS. occurrence; the civil administra-

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Some of the prisoners were trial at the Old Bailey in the

In the meantime a man named William Linnell had died in Charing Cross Hospital from injuries received in Trafalgur Square.

Thousands flocked to his funeral at Bow Common. William Morris, Annie Besant and others long tamous made speeches at the grave-side. Falling dark- ness brought uproar.

Eeric

figures struggled among gaunt tomb-stones, and many who went to the grave-yard as came away under

mourners Drrest.

Failure at Trafalgar Squaro magnified the importance of the free speech campaign. Many of its most ardent supporters were dissatisfied with the result of "Bloody Sunday," and the Glad- stone Club of Bermondsey-then, as now, well in the van of the Left-pasou a resolution con- demning the conduct of the police and advocating a new effort to hold a mect.ng in the Square.

Gladstone wrote soberly in

a great part of the country is fore be closed arbitrarily... given over to insecurity and Labour and Radical leaders violence. The military authori-burned with indignation at this ties have been doing their best denial of what they regarded as Counci's with the resources at their dis- an inalienable right.

ef war were held, and on the grey posal, but they have so far com- Sunday which was November pletely failed to check the

13 the Square was stormed apreading of rebellion. As a re- to Assort the sult the prestige of Great free meeting and to protest next day sentenced to terms of following January and were reply: "The question is one of Britain is rapidly sinking to a against the imprisonment of up to six months' imprisonment. sentenced to six weeks' hard great moment to the inhabitants most important two-- labour for "inciting to unlawful of London... and it will be very low ebb. On the Jewish Editor William O'Brien as an ine

Graham, M.P. assembly:"

generally felt that the state of side there is a growing belief infringement of the freedom of Cuninghame

(afterwards a famous writer), A charge of assaulting the law in regard to it ought to be that she is not seriously exert the Press.

With banners flying and bands and John Burns, captured on the police and rioting was not pro- promptly tested and ascertained. But it appears to me indisputable ing herself to restore law and

that until a decision can be had order, while the Arabs are be-playing, sombre armies of unem corner of the Strand-went for ceeded with.

it is the duty of every citizen to coming ever more confident that ployed and workmen converged

refrain from all resistance to the with a sufficient intensification, on the Square from every part

of London. of violence, they will ultimately be able to force the Mandatory to a revision of the partition policy.

What is chiefly remarkable is that the British administration seems to have learned nothing

Mounted police rode among the processions in a vain effort to break them up, and there were fights in Holborn, the Strand, Parliament Street.

Many scattered, but thousands! Charge from the earlier revolt of 1936. i reached the Square. There was universal agreement after charge was made against with the verdict of the Peel the ranks of police, who used

posals put forward by the Peel

the British Government. The Araba have at no time concealed

hatred of that plan and they re- fused to co-operate with the Woodhead Commission in its task of filing in the detalls of partition.

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Commission that that revolt ps- sumed the dimensions it did owing to healtancy and irresolu- Commission and endorsed by tion in taking drastic measures of suppression at the outant, Yet to all appearances exactly the same thing has happened again now. With the aid of the fresh British reinforcements at present on their way it is per- haps possible to hope that the conflagration will shortly be brought under control. There can be little doubt that the flames have been fanned by out. side agencies who rejoice to see this country involved in trouble. At the same time it is also not to be disputed that the rebellion reflects the genuine hostility of the majority of the Arab com- munity to the partition pro-

!

The main requirement is that whatever is to be decided shall be decided quickly, for the pro-1. longed uncertainty is itself one of the most potent factors mak- ing for disturbance. Once the decision is taken and the Govern- meat have proclaimed their firm. determination to enforce It the irrevocable is likely to be more readily accepted.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty decision of the executive govern-

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[ment, which is clearly entitled to administer the laws according to what it may be advised is their true construction."

THIS letter divided the ranks of those who wero anxious for another trial of strength. Eventually it was decided to hold the next protest in Hyde Park, where the polico could not interfere

In alarm which was not shared by Londoners generally tho Home Once asked for 20,000 to 30,000 special constables in caso of trouble. Only a quarter of that number could be raised, "but the meeting passed off with- out disturbance and they wero never required.

Compared with the events of "Bloody Sunony" the recent squabbles of Fascist and. Com- munist seem insignificant. Pro gressives have learned to got thair demands in quictar ways. "Bloody Sunday" fa a turned. page in British social, history, and ono which-la fading from memory with the passing of the ardent men who took part in it..

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