ANZACS WANT VICTORY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11438, 1 December 1915, Page 5

ANZACS WANT VICTORY.

LIVELY ANTI-CONSCRIPTION MEETING.

AUSTRALIANS TO THE FRONT.

VICTORY NOT PEACE.

Loudon, Nov. 30

At an auti-Conscription meeting in the Memorial Hall, Mr Pethrick Lawrence (who figured prominently as a supporter of ,the Women’s Suffrage movement) presided. A large force of Australian. New Zealand and Canadian soldiers and medical students formed tho bulk of tho audience.

Tho appearance of Mr Ramsay McDonald and Mr Morel Trevelyan on tho platform was the signal for a concerted rush by soldiers, who captured the platform, tore down flags and smashed chairs. They displayed a placard, “Anzacs want victory. ” They ejected anticonscriptionist sympathisers and an Australian took tho chair. Soldiers made impromptu speeches and passed a resolution in favour of the rejection of all peace terms except those the Allies dictated.

SOLDIERS FAVOUR CONSCRIP TION.

London, Nov. 30

The pandemonium at the Memorial Hall lasted twenty minutes. Asphyxiating gas from large stink bombs was Jauched, and then the soldiers unceremoniously routed the speakers.