Wild Scenes at a Meeting in Trafalgar Square London, Oct. 27.
Wild scenes were witnessed here to-day when police and communists engaged in 'a fierce hand-to-hand fight outside the American Embassy, whither a procession of hundreds} of communists had marched to present the Ambassador with a resolation protesting against the alleged persecution of militant workers. in the United States, particularly the textile workers in Gastonia.
The procession was the outcome a demonstration in Trafalgar Square at which the speakers inflamed the passions of the crowds by. relating: "an even ghastlier crime than the legal murder of Sacco and Vanzotti is about to be perpetrated: in America,—Sixteen Gastonia textile workers are in imminent danger of the electric chair.
The resolution, which was adopt-vilified the Premier, Mz. Ramsay MacDonald, and President Hoover! and demanded the release of polities al prisoners in Britain, America, India and elsewhere, 'The, procession was disappointed at' the reftisal to allow the resolation to be presented at the Embassy' and attempted to. rush through the gordon of mounted police outside the Embassy. The latter dispersed the disturbers of the peace after a fight; lasting. half an hour-—Reuter.
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