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