LLOYD-GEORGE AT GRIMSBY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 13, 17 January 1910, Page 8

LLOYD-GEORGE AT GRIMSBY.

UNIONIST DEMONSTRATION. SUFFRAGETTES INTERRUPT A MEETING. (Received January 17, 8.45 a.m.) . LOJSDON, 16th January. Local Unionists strongly resented Mr. Lloyd-George speaking at Grimsby during the polling. A hostile crowd surrounded the hall in which the- meeting was held, "booed" the speaker, and cried "Traitor" and ' Pic -Boer.'' The' police assisted Mr. Lloyd George to escape along the railway line to the first station, whence he motored to Louth, in Lincolnshire. During the meeting at Louth in trie evening some suffragettes, who had secreted themselves between the ceiling , and the roof, compelled' Mr. LloydGeorge to cease speaking while they wereejected. "NO INDICATION OF RESULT." MR. LLOYD-GEORGE ON THE EARLY RETURNS. (Received January 17, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, 16th January. Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer) speaking at Louth, declared that the first results of the elections were no indication of the form Parliament would ultimately take. The winning of an election does not mean holding every seat. CABINET AND THE NAVY. TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT. (Received January 17, 8.45 a.m.) ■ LONDON, 16th January. Mr. A. J. Balfour, Opposition Leader, in a speech at Bradford, said it was perfectly plain that there were two schools of, thought in the Cabinet — one which looked forward with deep alarm to the growth of a rival naval Power, while the other school talked of "frittering away public money" on the navy. "I don't know which school would win if <he Budget provided ample funds," added the speaker, "but when we are faced with a deficit, as I believe is certain, the school which regards naval expenditure as frittering will finally dominate the policy of the Cabinet." ALLEGATIONS OF BRIBERY. A RIFT IN THE LABOUR LUTE. (Received January 17, 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, ]6th January. Mr. John Foster Fraser and Mr. Bagley, Unionist and working man candidates for Leicester, have issued writs agamst Mi\ Ramsay Mscdonald, charging him with slanderously alleging that they had bribed the electors with drink. Mr. Foster Fraser, the well-known traveller and author, is well known in Wellington, -whi^h he recently visited in. ihfe coarse of a lecturing tour. Air. Ramsay Macdonald sat in the last Parliament as Labour member for Leicester. He also toured the* Dominion about two years ago, delivering addresses on Socialism and the aims of the Labour Party in the British Parliament.