Meantime the prisoners, brought the second time before the magistrates under a strong escort of soldiers, were the second time remanded.
"The strike went on this day also.

The workmen's committees were extended, and gave relief to great numbers of people, for they had organised a considerable amount of production of food by men whom they could depend upon.

Quite a number of well-to-do people were now compelled to seek relief of them.

But another curious thing happened: a band of young men of the upper classes armed themselves, and coolly went marauding in the streets, taking what suited them of such eatables and portables that they came across in the shops which had ventured to open.
This operation they carried out in Oxford Street, then a great street of shops of all kinds.

The Government, being at that hour in one of their yielding moods, thought this a fine opportunity for showing their impartiality in the maintenance of 'order,' and sent to arrest these hungry rich youths; who, however, surprised the police by a valiant resistance, so that all but three escaped.