Stormy Meeting
LIVE EELS AS MISSILES POLICE EJECT COMBATANTS [By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.] Received Dec. 10, 10.5 p.m, LONDON, Dec. 9. An orderly meeting in the Central Hall, Westminster, to protest against poison gas experiments on animals, developed into a startling variety entertainment in which such novelties as stink bombs and live eels were employed as missiles. The disturbers were university students who permitted Lieutenant-Com-mander Kenworthy, a Member of the House of Commons, a quiet hearing, but during Doctor 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. Police appeared at the height of the melee and ejected the rowdiest combatants. The others tramped out singing Auld Lang Syne. Dr Hadwen was the central figure of the pandemonium at the students’ anti-vivisection meeting of June 21, 1929.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 446, 11 December 1930, Page 7
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