JOURNALISTS ATTACKED

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1926, Page 9

JOURNALISTS ATTACKED

SCENE IN BIRMINGHAM CROWD MOB REPORTERS' BOX BY-ELECTION EXCITEMENT By Telegraph—Frew Assn.—Copyright. Received Dee. 16, 7.40 p.m. London, Dee. 16. Amazing scenes were enacted at the Theatre Royal in Smethwick when Mr. Oswald Mosley and his wife, Lady Cynthia Mosley, addressed an audience of three thousand Labour women in furtherance of Mr. Mosley’s campaign for the Smethwick by-election. The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent says six journalists were seated in the box taking notes, when suddenly someone shouted: ‘‘Throw that sneering pig out of the box.” Pandemonium instantly prevailed, the whole audience standing, yelling and gesticulating. A number of women left the circle and hammered on the boxdoor, smashing the glass. The situation was threatening when the Daily Herald's representative stepped forward and temporarily pacified the angry females. Mr. Mosley, from the stage, said the journalists were only carrying out the instructions of the Tory Press lords in London.

The speeches were continued interrupted by cries to the journalists to “put that down.”