1961 Press Photo Police Fight Battles with Demonstrators

Police Fight Battles with Demonstrators.- A Few Hours After the Trafalgar Square rally at the end of the Ban the Bomb marches from wethersfield and Aldermaston Yesterday, police fought two battles with ban-the bomb demonstrators. the trouble started when 500 demonstrators.sat down in and refused to move. Two of their leaders were arrested and taken to West End Central police station Saville Row, and 200 of the demonstrators surged down the road to the police station to protest. Canon Collins, Chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Said thet last night's demonstrations hand no backing from teh OPrganisers of the Trafalgar Square rally.

Photo measures 8.25 x 10 inches.

Photo is dated 4-4-1961.



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