M R ASQUITH “RAGGED.”
RECEPTION IN LONDON‘
LONDON, March 2
The London demollstrattion wnen Mr H. H. ‘Asquith took his seat at Westminster was "the most remarkable that any politician ever received in the metropolis.
He arrived at Wesmiinster -hatless and bespat’cereJ with confetti, riding in a motor car. of which the windows were broken and the mudguards torn off, owing to a ‘‘rag‘’ by a hundxed students. who swax-nwd over the car, and climbed on the roof. They sat astride the bonnet until the police secured the mastery and ejected them.
The car al'x'i'Ved at Westminster, guarded by mounted policemen fore and aft, and with constables riding on the roof, holding non to all the sides. and brandishing tl-Lmcheons to lu.-01» off the “raggex-s,” '
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3441, 22 March 1920, Page 2
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125MR ASQUITH “RAGGED.” Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3441, 22 March 1920, Page 2
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