Great Britain
CANADIANS INSULTED.
DISTURBANCE AT A THEATRE.
MANY ARJFtESTS MADE. (Received- 9.40 a.m. X&R3TBO London, March 12. The AVcekly Despatch states that two hundred. Canadian soldiers _secured, seats and ridiculed and stfippM «rßr|rj melodrama, entitled "The Love Thief" ; at the Queen's Theatre, believing that it derided Canada. The disorder of the Canadians was not seven's l 'until the military police interfered. Many arrests were made, and some were handcuffed. The disturbers were previously warned on the parade ground •hot to interfere with the performance. Sass, the actor, who appeared in the most unenviable part, in an interview, declared that the students' riot at Melbourne when a coffin was lowered from the gallery was nothing to-this. Some half-pennies were thrown on the stage and one struck a girl in the face.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 82, 13 March 1916, Page 6
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131Great Britain Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 82, 13 March 1916, Page 6
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