ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO The Fancy in 1923

Editorial: ANARCHY IN CLUB ROW (October 1923)

DARK, dark is the night – indeed, so dark that we see not; welcome would be a ray of light! While the more devout were indulging in prayer, another section of the community was appealing to be saved from a horrible scene in the East End of London. There, on Sunday morning last, in the heart of bird-land, a crowd suddenly changed into a torrent of frenzied human waves. Intermingled with pitiful cries of womenfolk and children came horror-striking shouts of “earthquake”, “revolvers”, “runaway horse”; and all pure imagination except that the overturning of a petrol-lighter stall, with the attendant explosion of a