ANTI-BRITISH AGITATORS
DISTURB NEW YORK GATHERING. New York, September 30. The police called at the Carnegie Hall in order to queß'an anti-Britisli demonstration by Irish women pickets and 'youths, who forced their way into the nail during the tercentenary celebration of the landing of Pilgrims. Pandemonium began when thin intruders broko in with banners, inscribed "Hurrah for America! Down with Britain!" The singing of the British Anthem was prevented. Quietness was restcred wlion the chairman ordered the American Anthem to be sung. The leader of the disturbers said'tho motive of the demonstration was to protest against the _ inveighling of .American girl:? and boys into singing the British National Anthem. The speakor charged the Sulgrave Institution (a notable Anglo-American society) with being a party to a plot to make tho United States "art of the British Empire. American oflicora -helped tho police to eject tlw disturbers.—Aus.-N!L Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 7
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147ANTI-BRITISH AGITATORS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 7
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