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Show PEACE CRANK NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK Charles Roden Buxton Is Hooted Down by Patriotic Audience and Is Driven From Hall. By International News Service. LONDON, Dec. 35. An attempt by Charles Roden Buxton to speak on a "people's peace" at the Dockers' hall, Swansea, was frustrated by a patriotic audience largely composed of ex-service ! men, who refused to listen to tho notorious notor-ious peace crank, threatened him with ! violence and finally rushed the platform. The meeting was arranged by the local j branch of tho I. 1,. P., and Alderman : David Williams, who presided, was told emphatically by tho audience that lie ought to be ashamed of doing so. "When Mr. Kuxton rose he was greeted with "1 hty cur!" Why aren't you fichting?" "Sinn KeinrM'!" and "Gentian dog!" lie had not completed his opening sentence before the audience began to sing. Li si -barged soldiers, who had ga thered in force at the back of the hall, cried "Traitor!"' and "Leave while you are sate!" They advanced down the center of (he hall in a threatening way, one waving a leather belt and shouting: "Thai's the stuff for you get out. It's the boys at the front who have faced the empire, which you have tried to wreck." t Loud cheers.) Mr. Huxton could not make himself , heaid, a iii I when (he interrupters c;ip- ! tured (he pkUiorm the greater pnrt of the audience rose and fans: the national an- them. fit- lelt, followed by a. tm-ypnt of booing and uncomj limt-utary epithets. |