31 MAY 1919, Page 2

On Monday some ten thousand ex-Service men, in attempting to

reach the Houses of Parliament to demand work, came into violent conflict with the police, and some heads were broken, though the police carried out their duty with no more than the necessary force. The attempt to enter the House was a defiance of law and order, which might possibly have been condoned if the demonstrators and their dependants had been starving. As we know that they all have enough money at least to buy food, wo must look for the cause elsewhere ; that is, in a deliberate attempt,. by what is called Bolahevism, to set ex-Service men at odds with the police, as representatives of State authority, on the same lines as the attempt of the " Triple Alliance " to rope in the police.