LATE WAR NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144856, 7 December 1915, Page 7

LATE WAR NEWS.

MEMORIAL HALL MEETING. DISCUSSED IN PARLIAMENT’. BT ELECTRIC? TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. (Roceivcd Dec. 7, 1.60 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 6. Mr. Tennant, in the House of Commons, repudiating a suggestion that soldiers with forged tickets were organised to break up tbo meeting m the Memorial Hall, said the disonlei commenced only when tbo stewards, acting ‘on Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s instructions, attoniptoa to remove five colonial soldiers from the front seats. Another person on the platform said*. “Lot that accursed military element bo got rid of before we start.” There were similar remarks by several stewardesses in Teutonic accents, otherwise, probably, there would have been no disorder. Sympathisers with tho cause admitted that tho soldiers* behaviour, was restrained admirably. Mr. Ponsoaby said the whole reply was a tissue of misrepresentations. (Cries of order and shame.) The remark was withdrawn. . Mr. Tennant sajd that the report was that of an inspector attending m plain clothes. % , A 1 . Mr. Ramsay MacDonald said that tho reference to him was without foundation. Ho did not give instructions.