STINK-BOMBS AND EELS
STI>DEjStTS IjNt HIGH GLES
A POISON GAS MEETING
| LONDON, 9th December. An orderly meeting in tho Central Hall, Westminster, to protest against! poison gas experiments on animal*1 developed into a startling variety en« tertainment in which such novelties at stink-bombs and live eels were eni« ployed as missiles. ,- ■ Tho disturbers were university stu« dents. They gave Commander J. M* Kenworthy, Labour member of thai House of Commons for Hull Central,; a quiet hearing, but during Dr. W. R. Hadwen's speecli they ros& to the attack when an elderly gentleman whoi objected to smoking struck a student's cigarette from his mouth with,' a folded newspaper. The police appeared at the height ofj the melee and ejected the rowdiest; combataaits. The others tramped out singing "Auld Lang Syne." Dr. Hadwen was the central figurni of the pandemonium into which thai students throw tho anti-viviscctioii meeting on 20th June, 1929.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 140, 11 December 1930, Page 9
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150STINK-BOMBS AND EELS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 140, 11 December 1930, Page 9
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