Police fight battles with demonstrators.: A few hours after the trafalgar square rally at the end of the Ban the bomb marches from Wetherfield and Aldermaston yesterday, police fought two battles with ban the bomb demonstrators. The trouble started when 500 demonstrators sat down in the road near the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square and refused to move. two of their leaders were arrested and taken to west end central police station in Saville row, and 200 of the demonstrators surge down the road to the campaign for nuclear disarmament, said that last night's demonstrations had no backing from the organisers of the Trafalgar square rally. Photo shows the scene as policemen handle one of the girl demonstrators during the "Battle of Saville row" yesterday.
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Photo is dated 04-04-1961.
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