BRITISH POLITICS.
A SOCIALIST M.P. .STRONG LANGUAGE. LONDON, October 4. -. Mr Grayson, member for Colne. Valley, speaking at Huddersfield and referring to Earl Cromer and i Egypt, declared that the National ! Exchequer had been depleted to.fill the maw of an idle, cruel parasite, who was a curse to his race. (Mr Grayson is a Socialist, who was a short time ago elected to represent Colne Valley, in place of Sir James Kitson, raised to the peerage. He signalled his election by being reported to .have stated, in .reference to the Belfast riots:—"The soldiers were weary of idleness, and would like to spill a little blood. If the people were without shrapnel, they had broken bottles to throw." Mr Grayson subsequently stated that .he had been misreported.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8550, 7 October 1907, Page 5
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126BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8550, 7 October 1907, Page 5
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