EGGS AND TOMATOES

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19430, 3 December 1934, Page 9

EGGS AND TOMATOES

MR ELLIOT AT GLASGOW.

STUDENTS BOMBARD STAGE. (From a correspondent). LONDON, October JS. Tomatoes and eggs were thrown at Mr Waller Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, by students of his old university at Glasgow when he arrived to support a candidate in the rectorial election. There are four candidates —Sir Stafford Cripps (Labour), M. Paderewski (Distributist), Mr Cunnlnghame Graham (Scottish Nationalist), and Sir lain Colquhuon (nonpolitical). The Tory tilub has thrown its weight In favour of Sir lain Colquhoun. • As though in response to a signal there was'a barrage of eggs and tomatoes from all parts of the hall when Mr and Mrs Elliot walked on to the platform of the students’ union, atu'dent leaders help up their hands In appeal for the firing to stop, but it continued. Tomatoes and eggs scattered all round the grand piano and upon the curtain around the stage. A tomato hit Mr Elliot on the head and the contents of an egg, which had crashed against the curtain above, fell on him. A student in the gallery took aim with a water pistol and emptied its contents over' the Minister’s clothes. ,

Mrs Elliot Struok.

Airs Elliot had been struck by a tomato which, however, did not burst. A woman student led her off the stage. Then an undergraduate ran to the electric controls and let down the curtain. Eggs and tomatoes were smashed all over, It. Next moment Mr Elliot came out in front of the curtain and faced the auidence amid considerable uproar. 'Ultimately quiet was restored, but when Mr Elliot rose to. speak he was greeted' with a chorus of animal noisep in which the sounds of cows and pigs predominated. The students also sang a ballad, “We Have Had No Milk To-day.”-

"The Socialists,” said Mr Elliot, in' his speech, “are on the run in every country in Europe to-day, because they have no guts. The. Socialists five or ten years ago were the hope of 'the -world. To-day they are the despair .of the world, and In Germany the Socialists have brought slavery upon their own people. In this country the Socialists have freedom and liberty, because ‘the Tories stood up to preserve that liberty for them. The people who are preserving the liberties of this country are the National Government.” At the close of his address Mr Elliot was given a warm send-off by 2000 students.