It seems also as if before the Trafalgar Square massacre they might as a whole have been depended upon to fire upon an unarmed crowd, though they were much honeycombed by Socialism.

The reason for this was that they dreaded the use by apparently unarmed men of an explosive called dynamite, of which many loud boasts were made by the workers on the eve of these events; although it turned out to be of little use as a material for war in the way that was expected.

Of course the officers of the soldiery fanned this fear to the utmost, so that the rank and file probably thought on that occasion that they were being led into a desperate battle with men who were really armed, and whose weapon was the more dreadful, because it was concealed.

After that massacre, however, it was at all times doubtful if the regular soldiers would fire upon an unarmed or half-armed crowd." Said I: "The regular soldiers?
Then there were other combatants against the people ?" "Yes," said he, "we shall come to that presently." "Certainly," I said, "you had better go on straight with your story.

I see that time is wearing." Said Hammond: "The Government lost no time in coming to terms with the Committee of Public Safety; for indeed they could think of nothing else than the danger of the moment.