Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1918 — ARMY-NAVY “MOP UP” REDS [ARTICLE]

ARMY-NAVY “MOP UP” REDS

Soldiers and Sailors Maul Crowd of New York Radicals. New York. Nov. 26. —Hundreds of soldiers, sailors and marines broke through a cordon of police surrounding Madison Square garden and attacked International Socialists who had attended a mass meeting at which bolshevik doctrines were expounded. The men and women leaving the hall broke and fled as the men in uniform charged past the police, but were pursued into the side streets in all directions. Several men and \yomen were arrested during the meeting for displaying red flags in defiance of an edict by Mayor Hylan. Large numbers of men in uniform entered the bulldiiffe. before the doors were locked, with the avowed determination of preventing attacks upon the government.JThey were restrained with difficulty by the police and detectives from making an assault on the stage. Scores of fist fights were interrupted by officers.