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EDINBURGH MAKES WHOOPEE Anti-Catholic Demonstration

From. Our :Special Correspondent ( )1X Saturday night Edinburgh was the seette or ii ii anti-catholic demons' I alio': which drew larger crowds than ;Any attraciluti -within living memory. The Protestant Action Society had

called on its members to gather to protest against the holding of a civic reCere thin To the ertholie Young elen's Society. Iounled police kept the street I mmediately oppo.eite the meeting-place deer, but at either end of tile open si.iice people withered (meekly. Here and there Prutestent speakers harangued Oroults mbeinifflent ellecre, • While others eung pateletic A Quiet Saturday Night The demonstraiicei foirly orderly

one ...Ind the crewde. \Odle noisy, %Vero lapt Well tinder vhatirol by the pollee. Shortly efier midnight the streets I-tire nark to normal. Only three persons 1,4Ore. arresied, The. entire police force of the

was liii duty for the evening. The crowds started gathering io High Street, near the City Chaireeers, soon after six O'cloelt.

Instuebances also took place in other parts of the city. An attempt was merle to Morin a Cathutic Hemel mid the itooles had 10 lei lociked. Rival fections elestied and one num tA'aS' ttilicn to the infirmery stiffering froth head injuries. Nevertheless. the total number of arrests NVII;;; slightly hover than the Saturday night 41VellIge.

Lead iv a Town Councillor Mr. C...1,1.,JeN, the demen

stratien. le a t)\\ ii ianihrilior. Lind 101'

!ONIL■ dithel,,c(1 the C(11,11011C (.h011 11 1,i11,1H ii IllulLiltiL ocresiotte. Iii :i Lull ooe,-Ji he declined in the ilhilLu iuJ otieily i ell, 1,1,h:older:, meet

Iii) e.-e-ey (.„0,„iic,

I■rehee al the 41111111 CP4011111,11 1.011 the iirromiemeels made were secit Mil it \) IS impossible for Ii liii to sei. Coneiteiii.. it, 1 LI the local newspapers Heeler heeded "Moh Religion.in are eeitiliiree The Pruning News has the editor corinnents col the fort that 'TiiaLi;k: l'irib.estii1h. 4thltrithe.5 nre sparsely nt1011dNi, yet on Saturday nieht 1-11'ofd NN'f'1'1' milli a riTmd. n proportion of whieh I.) glVCliii (.:11111dir!.111 raw rieni.




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