It is to be hoped that the attitude adopted by crowds mostly composed of little more than boys last Friday in Dartford will not be repeated. They can only bring the town into disgrace. The police are to be congratulated on their clever handling of a position which might easily have developed into a very serious one at any moment, especially during the later hours of the evening. As is usual in the case of mob law, the greatest inconvenience was caused to those people for whom it was not intended, and the disgraceful scenes enacted in Colney Road before the premises of a British-born tradesman by a disorderly rabble, mostly composed of children and louts, were a disgrace to any civilised community.