LLOYD GEORGE IN U.S.A.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15360, 8 October 1923, Page 5

LLOYD GEORGE IN U.S.A.

ANTI-BRITISH OUTBURST.

BY IRISH REPUBLICANS.

STRONG ACTION BY POLICE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. NEW YORK, October 6. During the performance of the revue which Mr Lloyd George attended, 40 taxi-cabs loaded with Irish Republicans, mostly women, reached the theatre. The occupants shrieked at the police and threw pamphlets addressed to their fellow-Americans, asking "Who is Lloyd George?" with the answer, "A piratical propagandist." The police dispersed the crowds before Mr Lloyd George departed for his hotel. The police broke up a parade of women carrying banners, denouncing Great Britain, outside the City Hall, where a crowd numbering thousands had gathered to greet Mr Lloyd George. Some banners read "Don't lot England pull the wool over your eyes" and "British bootleggers are flooding America with British 'booze-' " The police seized the banners and tore them into shreds.

During the melee a number of automobiles paraded past the outskirts of the crowd, circulating anti-Lloyd George statements. One woman struck a policeman on the head with a banner, and was arrested. The women said they were members of the Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic. Some banners bore "Lloyd George's black and tans are here;" Lloyd George's hands are red with the blood of women and children."

Fifty additional police reserves were called up. CHEERED IN BROADWAY.

ROTTEN EGGS THROWN.

ANGLO-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. NEW YORK, October 6

Following a private dinner, Mr Lloyd George attended a revue and was several times cheered by crowds in Broadway. At the entrance to the theatre rotten eggs were thrown, but missed Mr Lloyd George and struck bystanders. The audience applauded Ws entrance and gave him an ovation during the interval. Mr Lloyd George acknowledged this with bows, explaining to his companions that speech-making would compete with the actors. \

Addressing American newspaper editors Mr Lloyd George emphasised the value of friendship between America and Britain as an influence for the stability of the world. He asserted that George Washington was the real founder of the, British Empire. "The lessons which Washington and other early leaders of your people taught us in the eighteenth century," said Mr Lloyd George, "were our salvation. You taught Britain how to govern free people." Washington taught the British Gov 7 eminent to be more lenient, Mr Lloyd George quoting Canada as proof of this.

Referring to Europe, Mr Lloyd George depicted the vast destruction and misery there, adding: "But what would it have been if the Allied army had been defeated? Europe will recover, but if Europe had become a prey to the great military despotism, three generations would not have seen the end of it. That is what you saved us from, and I here say, 'than you.' " Mr Lloyd George left to-day for Montreal to commence his tour of Canada. Hugo crowds lining Broadway cheered Mr Lloyd George as the procession moved to the City Hall, where the acting-Mayor, Mr Huibart, welcomed him. In responding, Mr Lloyd George said his trip had no official status, nor was it a reward for years of hard straggle for the cause of the people. Referring to America as a "nation of boasters," he declared: "You are right in being boasters. I wish we had boasters in England." En route to the hotel, the jeers of scattered Irish Republicans were completely drowned in the cheering. Mr Lloyd George attended a luncheon in his honour at noon.