DISORDERLY MEETINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18849, 25 October 1924, Page 11

DISORDERLY MEETINGS.

'CANDIDATE THRASHES A MAN

LABOUR DENIES COMPLICITY. Australian sad N.Z. Cable 'Association. CEecd. BJO p;m.) ••= LONDON. Oct. 23. 'J A number of meetings have again been disorderly. Several candidates abandoned their'meetings altogether. £ Colonel : Sherwood Kelly, V.C., who fa contesting the Claycross seat, Derbyshire, jumped from the platform and thrashed a man called him a liar. After this there were no interruptions. Kowdyism at election : meetings in various parts of the country is given prominence in the press. The official Unionist headquarters has denounced the breaking up of Unionist and Liberal meetings as the I introduction of Bolshevik methods into English politics. : Liberal headquarters assert-. that the rowdies are not electors. Many, appear to be of alien origin, and- the. disturbances seem to be organised. - Labour. headquarters emphatically deny allegations' that they are in any connected with the. disturbances. The'official Labour Party declared that opponents, if • they persisted in misrepresentation, could not •be surprised ' if audiences showed that, • the limit of human endurance was-reached, but the Labour Party desired : that every facility for open discussion-'be'maintained. ■ The Daily Mail, in a leading ' article, attributing election rowdyism to Bolshevik., agents, , says the • only portion of the Anglo-Russian loan likely to be f spent in Britain would be devoted to stirring -up strikes, treason, and civil far..