CANADIAN NATIONALIST
REFUSED A HEARING PUBLIC MEETING DISTURBED Ottawa, December If. \ Mr. Bourassa, the Nationalist leader 1 ,, attempted to speak at a theatre in' this city. An immense crowd assembled and howled him .down. Soldiers con-i*-nected with tho second Canadian con-t, tingont smashed the doors arid windows/ and forcibly draped, the speaker's table: • with a Union Jack. The/ sang patriotic. -• songs continuously. " S A soldier attempted to compel Bourassa to ivave a flag, but he re*. fused. .There was terrifio excitement. ]; The disturbance was quelled by thef' intervention of the police, who werei' obliged to protect Mr. Bourassa when; he was leaving the theatre.. Bourassa; is unpopular with both the French and!' British owing to his attitude regarding: the war. ' t* Henri Bourassa, editor of "Le Dav", voir," was born at Montreal, on Septem-p ber 1, 1868. He has been a prbminonf figure in politics for some years*
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2337, 19 December 1914, Page 5
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148CANADIAN NATIONALIST Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2337, 19 December 1914, Page 5
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