ROWDY STUDENTS.
DISTURBANCE AT MEETING.
WESTMINSTER HALL SCENE
(Received December 10, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 9. A meeting in (he Central Hall, Westminster, to protest against, experiments with poison gas on animals developed into a scene of disoider, in the course of which "slink bombs" and Jive eels were employed as missiles. The disturbers were University students. They gave Commander J. L. Kenworthy. M.P., a quiet hearing, but when Dr. W. R. Iladwen was speaking they rose to (he attack because an elderly man objected to a student smoking and struck a cigarette from his mouth with a folded newspaper.
The police appeared on the scene at the height of the melee and ejected tho rowdiest of the combatants. 'I he others tramped out of the hall singing "For Auld Lang Syne." Dr. Had wen was tho central Figure of tho pandemonium into which students turned an anti-vivisection meeting on June 20, 3929.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20744, 11 December 1930, Page 15
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