According to `` The Observer '' , during this period pregnant women and those holding babies were clubbed Bodily_harm by police with truncheons and the police were hitting Attack `` anybody they could reach '' .

When some of the travellers tried to escape Escaping by driving Motion away through the fields , `` The Observer '' states Statement that the police threw Body_movement truncheons , shields , fire-extinguishers and stones at them in an attempt to stop Preventing_or_letting them .