March 1964 Salisbury Goes To War Tear gas and stonings

March 1964 Salisbury Goes To War Tear gas and stonings, riding shotgun in the citypolice guard the buses. All day long the noise of battle rolled through Salisburys Highfields suburb. A small army of police with sub-machine guns, riot pistols, rifles, and tear and vomit gas hunted elusive and ragged bands of men with rocks. Lumbering, inky-blue armoured cars and innumerable wire-meshed landrovers crunched through roadblocks piled high with everything from beds to boulders. In the end, it was not the guns that finished everything off. It was the rain. When the storm clouds cleared, two men lay dead, cut down by bullets, four others were wounded, and several more hobbled about, damaged either by rioter or by police action. In jail 80 faced charges. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)

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Bands Beds Boulders Bullets Charges Cleared Either Elusive Everything Faced Finished Highfields Hobbled Hunted Inky Innumerable Lumbering Noise Piled Pistols Ragged Riot Rioter Roadblocks Rolled Salisbury Suburb Tear Vomit

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