| Show FAVORABLE TO THE BOERS englishmen meet in in london to condemn the war london juno june 20 thousands of people began collecting outside of queens hall hours before the advertised time of the pro boer meeting held there last night when tho the doors were finally opened the pressure of the surging mob was so great gretat that many people d tainted fainted there was considerable 0 disturbance and windO windows were broken la in during ithe the made aae by persons without tickets to g gain in admission 1 some of these were impaled during the disturbance many jingles jingoes a gained admittance to the hall which 51 was as crammed from floor to ceiling 0 lp much hooting mingled bilth cheers erected greeted the delegates upon their arrival and during durling the evening the delivery of speeches waa was with some so me difficulty from the sansa same cause henry labouchere presided at ut the theo meeting and amide J W ex commissioner commissio of 0 public ot of cape Oo colony lony many prominent prom ineat pro boers dom 1 including jon dillon lloyd george welsh nationalist jamea james kerr har adla did socialist and sir SIT wilfred 7 lawson won f were present during the meeting fully jim goes gathered the hall blockaded traffic and necessitated relays of policemen to keep a semblance ot of order in the crowd several sevel men mounted the parapet ot of the laragh langham am hotel and waving union jacks proposed resolutions against the pro boer agitation which they declared to have been carried when tha thel meeting in queens hall ball terminated the usual speeches were made and the usual resolutions were carried amid much coot oom lon and exert excitement ement the resolutions included an amendment in favor ot of the complete independence pen dence of the boer republics proposed by baron daton cattersen Bat Dat for the radicals which did not mot meat meet with ithe approval of the labouchere party the meeting ended with the singing of the marseillaise Marseil laise J X merryman ex treasurer of cape colony and now D a representative of the bund to in england wrote a letter to the promoters of the meeting apologizing for ills his absence several collisions occurred between the crowd outside filhe hall bell and the po ile 1100 and the latter had bad the greatest difficulty in handling the asee assemblage malage no casu casualties aldes were Te reported poTted the tho dally daily mall mail asserts that the promoters of the queens tall ball meeting secured the services ot of 00 00 or stal warts warts as stewards these gangs of foreign ruf ruffians flats were found inside the ball according to the daily L mall ready to keep order and reject the malcontents the stalwarts Stal warts were drawn from the low class foreign clubs in soho many ot of them then nvere armed with stacks broom handles and knuckle dusters and they acted with violence in excluding rowdies and wIng out undesirable persons |
