LONDON'S INTEREST.
CHANCELLOR HOOTED AT GRIMSBY. (Received 8.45 a.m.) LOXDOX. January 16. Crowds numbering between twenty and thirty thousand gathered outside the Fleet-street newspaper offices, in Tra- I falgar Square, and at Aldwich (the Fleetstreot end of the Strand). to watch the election results shown by lanterns on; screens. The periods of waiting were enlivened by political songs upon gramaphones. Local Unionists strongly resented Mr. Lloyd George speaking at Grimsby during polling, and a hostile crowd surrounded the hall, booed and cried "Traitor" and "Pro-Boer." Tlie police assisted Mr. Lloyd George to escape along the railway line to the first station, whence ho motored to Louth. i During the meeting at Louth in the ! evening tho suffragettes, secreted be- ; twteu the ceiling and the roof, compelled j the Chancellor to cease speaking while they were ejected. .South African newspapers published lon Sunday owing to the intense interest lin the elections.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 14, 17 January 1910, Page 5
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