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Show The Socialists' Sunday Out. . London, September 28. The great Socialistic Social-istic meeting about which so much has been said, and which the police threatened to suppress, was held at the Lime House yesterday, yes-terday, without interference on the-partof the authorities. Fully 40,000 persons took part in the demonstrations. The speakers indulged in violent denunciations of present society, but no' undue excitement was displayed dis-played by the immense audience, and the affair passed off in the most peaceful manner. The police kept carefully out of Bight of the meetings. The police authorities making no display of the force had, it is thought, much to do with the absence of disorder.. Another estimate of the numbers attending attend-ing the Socialistic demonstration yesterday, placed them at an aggregate of at least 70,000. There was an immense representation representa-tion from the East End, and many of those present came in wagons and other vehicles, adorned with red banners and surmounted with Liberty caps. Resolutions were passed at the meeting, unanimously denouncing the recent action of the police magistrates and demanding the release of the Socialists recently arrested, and insisting upon their right to hold public meetings and indulge in freedom of speech. When the procession yesterday passed the police station many in the ranks hooted their defianoe and enthusiastically enthusi-astically waved their banners as an additional addi-tional illustration thereof, while uproarious cheering in honor of a social revolution was made the prominent feature of that part of the demonstration. |