Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 3, 7 December 1915, Page 6

Great Britain

MEMORIAL HALL JOKE.

ATTEMPT T 0 .REMOVE COLONIALS RESENTED. STRONG TEUTON ACCENT IN SPEAKERS. [fjNiTKv Press Aunwution.) (Received 1.50 p.m.) London. December .6. ■ Mr Tennant, in the House of Commons, while repudiating the suggestion that soldiers with forged tickets were organised to break up the, meeting in the Memorial Hall, said that I the disorder commenced only when the stewards; acting under .Mr Ramsay MacDonaldV instruction, attempted to remove five Colonial soldiers from the front seats. Another person on the platform said, "Let that accursed military element be.got rid of, before we start." Similar remarks were made by several stewardesses with a teutonic accent. Otherwise there would probably have been no disorder. Sympathisers with the cause admitted that the soldiers' behaviour was restrained admirably.

Mi* Ponsonby said, "The whole reply is a tissue of misrepresentations."

(Cries of "order" and "shame.") The remark was withdrawn.

Mr'Tennant,, "That's'the report of an inspector attending in "plain clothes." Mr Mae Donald said that'the reference to himself had no-foundation. He did not give the instructions.