PRO-BOER MEETING IN LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 146, 21 June 1901, Page 5

PRO-BOER MEETING IN LONDON.

DOORS GUARDED BY FOREIGNERS.

REMARKABLE SPEECH BY LA-

BO UCHERE

CHEERS GIVEN FOR, BOER

LEADERS

LONDON", June 20.

Three thousand persons were admitted by ticket to a, prb-Boer meeting in the Queen's Hall.

Eight hundred foreigners, market porters and Battersea gasworkerswere engaged to keep out opponents, and a large force of police assisted to preyent any effort to rush the hall.

Mr Labouchere, M.P., presided, and in the course of his speech referred to Lord Milner as a wretched penny-a-liner. British soldiers, he said, were lions led by geese.

Mr Merriman, the Afrikander Bond delegate, was absent, being- indisposed, but his colleague^ Mr Saver, was present.

Messrs Lloyd-George, Clifford, Dillon and Keir-Haxdie denounced the war.

Allusions to Kruger and De Wet were cheered,' and Mr Chamberlain's name was received with hisses.

Dissenters were instantly ejected,

A crowd outside, estimated at 10,000, tried to gain admission and sang patriotic songs until the rain dispersed them. '■'

Some collisipns with the pro-Boers occurred, the latter Toeing hustled and bonneted.