Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-11-12 | Page 2 | Peace Conference in Wales Broken Up

PEACE C1FEBE INWSMOKEBUP Patriotic Demonstrators In- vade Hall and Severe Fighting Results. LONDON, Nov. 11, 5:17 u. m . A conference con-ference at Cardiff, Wales. In favor of opening peace negotiations, which had been arranged by the National Council of Civil Liberties, was broUcn up today, to-day, the Cardiff correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company wires. A crowd of patriotic demonstrators broke into the" nail and severe lighting resulted, re-sulted, although there were no casualties. casual-ties. The president of the South Wales Miners ' Federation was in the chair. Speeches were made by James H. Thomas and Ramsay MacDonald, members mem-bers of the house of commons. The delegates to the conference appeared ap-peared to be mostly young men of military mili-tary age. A number of women also were present. The crowd which broke up the meeting first paraded through the town, its ranks growing constantly until several thousand persons were in line. ! When the demonstrators reached the 1 hall in which the conference was being; held they met with stout resistance from within, but eventually the doors were broken down; Fist fighting followed, fol-lowed, in which it is reported that women wom-en delegates fought fiercely. Some stones thrown from without broke windows. win-dows. Mr. Thomas attempted to rally his supporters, but was draggod from the platform and narrowly escaped serious mill ry. When the demonstrators were in full possession of the hall they waved dags and sang "God Save the King."