ENGLISHMAN EJECTED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11906, 2 September 1919, Page 6

ENGLISHMAN EJECTED.

PROM NEW YORK HOTEL. PROTEST AGAINST SINN FEIN COLLECTION. New York, June 2(i. The guests at the Hotel Saint Regis, one of New York’s fashionable resorts, yesterday witnessed the spectacle of an Englishman, Sir Charles Carrick Allom, being forcibly ejected by three Irish porters after a brisk encounter in the vestibule.

The affair, to which most of this morning’s papers devote a column of humorous description on their front pages, arose out of protests made by Sir Charles against a collection being made in the hotel lobby by two young Irish girls on behalf of the Sinn Fein campaign in New York. He is alleged to have called the Sinn Feiuers traitors, and to have indulged in other uncomplimentary recnarks, whereupon the manager called on the three Irish porters to put him out. They willingly obliged. The papers make Sir Charles appear as the- typical Englishman of the American'stage in “immaculate tweeds, with a gigantic physique and a stentorian voice, twirling an irate cane. ’’ Interviewed later in the daj r , Sir Charles said: “Really, it was'a slight affair. They lost their tampers and put me out.’’ The consensus of opinion this morning appears to be that Sir Charles “took it very well” and “showed lie was a good sport.” [Sir Charles Carrick Allom is principal of White, A110m,.. and Co., contractors to the Admiralty and War Office for high explosive shells. ]