ANTI-MILITARISM.
AN ADVOCATE CHASED BY YOUTHS. ;• .‘A''HOSTILE MEETING. (Per Press Association A Hastings, December 4. Mr. E. Stevenson addressed an open-air ; meeting bib about three hundred people last night in opposition to compulsory military training. The mooting was hostile 'throughout, and ended in uproar. A band of about two hundred youths singing “Soldiers of the King, 1 ' “Rule Britannia,” and other patriotic airs chased the speaker, who took refuge in a restaurant, and escaped through, tho rear of the promises to the Ranfurly Hotel. The police arrived at this stage, and the crowd dispersed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 94, 4 December 1911, Page 6
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