POISON GAS

Southland Times, Issue 21265, 11 December 1930, Page 5

POISON GAS

‘ TESTS ON ANIMALS LIVELY MEETING OF PROTEST STINK BOMBS AND EELS (United Press Asfcn.—Ey Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, December 9. An orderly meeting in the Central Hall, Westminster, to protest against poison gas experiments on animals developed into a startling variety of entertainment in which such novelties as stink bombs and live eels were employed as missiles. The disturbers were university students, who permitted Commander Kenworthy, a member of the House of Commons, a quiet hearing, but during Dr. W. R. Hadwen's speech rose to the attack when an elderly gentleman, who objected to smoking, struck a student's cigarette from his mouth with a folded newspaper. The police appeared at the height, of the melee and ejected the rowdiest combatants. Others tramped out singing “Auld Lang Sync.” Dr. Hadwen was the central figure of the pandemonium which reigned at the students’ anti-vivisection meeting in June of last year. Two hundred uproarious medical students created a pandemonium at a meeting at Caxton Hall in June of last year at which supporters of the abolition of vivisection were to speak. The chairman, Dr. Hadwen, was shouted down. Singing and a free fight marked the proceedings till the interrupters were thrown out. Some were taken to a police station. The meeting closed with women screaming among the wrecked chairs. The police cleared the street, and the students marched off after they had prevented speech-making to Trafalgar Square, and ended the evening bydancing for half an hour in Piccadilly Circus with straws in their hair.