EGGS AND TOMATOES

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 128, 27 November 1934, Page 7

EGGS AND TOMATOES

3IK. ELLIOT AT GLASGOW

STUDENTS BOMBARD STAGE

(From "The Post's" Representative.) , LONDON, October 16.

Tomatoes and eggs were thrown at Mr. Walter Elliot, Minister of Agriculture, by »tudent» ot bis old university at Glasgow when be arrived to support a candidate in the rectorial election. There are four candidates—Sir Stafford Cnpps (Labour), k. Paderewski . (Distributist),. Mr. Cunningham* | Graham (Scottish Nationalist), and Sir lain Colqunoun (non-political). Th« Tory Club has throws its weight in favour of Sir. lain Colquboun. .

I Ai though in response to a: signal there was a barrage of eggs and tomatoes from all parts of the hall wbea Mr. and Mrs. Elliot walked on to the I platform of the students' onion. Student leaders held up their hands in appeal for the firing to stop, but it I continued. Tomatoes and eggs scattered all round the grand piano and upon the curtain around the stage. A tomato, I 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 wita a water pistol and emptied its contenta aver the Minister's clothes.

Mrs. Elliot bad 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 toe curtain. Eggs and tomatoes were smashed all over it. Next moment Mr. Elliot came out in front of the curtain and faced the audience amid considerable uproar. Ultimately quiet was restored, bat when Mr. Elliot rose to speak he was greeted with a chorus of animal noises in which the sounds of cows and piga predominated. The students also aang a ballad, "We Have Had No Milk Today." "The Socialists," said Mr. Elliot, U the coarse of his speech, "are on the run la *very country in Europe today, because they have no gats. The Socialists five or ten yean ago were the hop* of the world. Today they are the daspair 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. V At the close of his address Mr. Elliot was given a warm send-off by, 2000! students. ■ ■