PRO-BOER MEETING IN LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11685, 21 June 1901, Page 5

PRO-BOER MEETING IN LONDON.

ADMISSION BY TICKET. DOORS GUARDED BY FOREIGNERS. 1 UNPATRIOTIC ENGLISHMEN. CHEERS GIVEN FOR KRUGER AND DE WET. : (Received June 21, 12.45 a.m.) London, June 20. Three thousand, sons were admitted by ticket to a pro-Boer meetJ in the Queen's Hall j Eight hundred foreigncis, market j poller?:- and Battersea gasworkers ! were engaged to keep out opponents I and a large force fit police assisted ! to prevent any effort to rush the ! hall.

i Mr. Labouchere, M.P., presided, I and in the course of his speech reI ferred to Lord Milner as a wretched j penny-a-liner. British soldiers, he said, were lions led by geese. Mr. Herriman, the Afrikander Bond delegate, was absent, being indisposed, but bis colleague, Mr. Saner, was present. Messrs. Lloyd-George, Clifford, Dillon and Keir-llardie denounced the war. Allusions to Knitter Mid De Wet were cheered, an I Mr. ChamberIsm's name was received with hisses. Dissenters were instantly ejected. A crowd outside, estimated at 10,000, tried to train admission and sang patriotic songs until the rain dispersed then:. Some collisions with the pro-Boers occurred, the latter being hustled and bonneted.