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Show PACIFISTS DISPERSED BI HARTFORD POLICE Meeting Broken Up When Speaker Begins Attack on Government. By International News Service. HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 16. Chief of Detectives Frank Santoro created a lively scene this afternoon when he broke up a meeting of the People's Council for Democracy De-mocracy at which Mrs. Annie Rile Hale was throwing .verbal bricks at the present pres-ent war and Its conduct. "Stop this meeting," shouted Chief Santoro. "Let her talk," advised a few, but for the most part the audience cheered as Santoro and his aides gave orders to the people In the hall to disperse quietly and to Mrs. Hale and Chairman Whitehead to accompany him to police headquarters. Chief Santoro's Interruption came at a point where Mrs. Hale was saying: "This modern war particularly with the method by which it is being waged Is the most archaic, most wasteful and most stupid method of settling anything." A moment before the speaker had referred re-ferred to "the trader behind the lines" and Chief Santoro had understood her to speak of the "traitor" behind the lines. The meeting was held in Socialist hall tnly after every theater owner in Hartford Hart-ford had refused to have his house used- The prisoners were escorted to police headquarters by a considerable crowd, which included soldiers and sailors. Sprinkled in the crowd too were many who readily admitted their connection with the Hartford branch of the people's council for democracy. Some few displayed dis-played a desire to support Mrs. Hale and to indorse her remarks, but for the most part the crowd manifested unmistakable dissent from her views and sympathy with Chief Santoro for suppressing the meeting soon after its start. "The city of Hartford is not going to be used by any person or bunch of per-spns per-spns to cast slurs upon the entrance of the United States into the war, at least not while I hold my job," said Chief Santoro. |