A PRO-BOER AT EDINBURGH.
DISGRACEFUL 80ENK8. FIB PBSSS ASSOCIATION, Received 29, 12.43 a.m. London, April 28, Mr. Merriman addressed 2500 persons who were admitted by ticket at Waverley Market, Edinburgh. Extralordinary scenes of violence occurred. Five hundred hired roughs expelled scores of dissentients who persisted in singing patriotic songs. Mr. Merriman urged tbe establishment of a united South Africa Governed on the model of Australia, many thousand anti-Boers outside were refused admission. The police bad great difficulty iu p-eserving the peace. The Scotsmen says such a dis* play of brutality on the part of the organisers of the meeting never previously disgraced Edinburgh.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 83, 29 April 1901, Page 3
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103A PRO-BOER AT EDINBURGH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 83, 29 April 1901, Page 3
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