UNIVERSAL TRAINING.

Evening Star, Issue 14638, 7 August 1911, Page 1

UNIVERSAL TRAIN IN G.

—• ! 'SOCIALIST'S UNFORTUNATE J IIETORT. j LEADS TO A HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION. [Feb Uxited Pncss Association.] WELLINGTON. August 7. For thicc hours last night about 70 youths took charge of Cuba and Dixon. streets in a demonstration against tho j Socialists in their attempt to belittle the ■ universal trainiu«r scheme. The demon st rat ion was the reenlt of an open-air meeting held by Socialists on the. street corner. Thero was a large congregation of Uie public lifiteniiig quietlv to the theories enun ciated. One speaker upheld the action of i young Cornish, who was imprisoned l'oi I not l'egistering, and stated that no cause was ever won without some individual breaking the law and becoming a martyr. In support of hi& contention he quoted his tory, going back to Charles I. Hero someone interjected: "He had his head cut! off." ''The time will come when King I Ceorgc's head will be cut off tJso," re-j tcrted the speaker. With this statement j the meeting ended. The crowd became furious. The Socialists' platform was rushed and reduced to splinters. The So-i cialiste retreated to their hall, followed by ] a huge crowd. With the aid of the police I the hostile• element was kept out of thai hall, but a crowd of youths and boys made j a demonstration outside the hall, and pang' patriotic sonps for some time. The police eventually effected the dispersing of the lads, who protested that there would be a further hostile demonstration next Sun-, day.