SCENES AT BY-ELECTION

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 December 1926, Page 2

SCENES AT BY-ELECTION

TOOLS OF “TORY PRESS LORDS” (Received Thursday, 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. IS. Amazing scenes wore enacted at the Theatre Royal, Smethwick, when Sir Oswald Mosley and his wile, Lady Cynthia, addressed an audience of three thousand Labour women in furtherance of Sir Oswald Mosley's campaign in the Smethwick by-election. The “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent says that six journalists were seated in a box taking notes when suddenly someone shouted: “Throw' that sneering pig out of the box.” Pandemonium instantly prevailed, the whole audience standing yelling and gesticulating. A number or' women IcfFthc circle and hammered on the box door, smashing the glass. The situation was threatening when the “Daily Herald’s” representative stepped forward and temporarily pacified the angry females. Sir Oswald Mosley from the stage said that the journalists wei only carrying out the instructions of the Tory Press Lords in London. The speeches continued to be interrupted by cries to the journalists to “Put that doAvn.”

[Sir OsAvald Mosley is contesting the seat as a Labourite.]