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impossible for the meeting to continue.
(i)
The crowd
cheered "the 'Queen, for Noloon, for Gordon, for the
Empire, and for everything that had a remote connection
with Imperiaiiem. " (2)
Clark eetimutod the size of
the crowd at between thirty and forty thoucand, and
claimed that it had been incited by "the war journals"}
The promoters of the meeting met tho same voening and
condemned the "organised interruption,,.. focented by the
yellow and otock jobbing prose.
" (4)
It oppoured that
the meeting had boon publicised, in the Pall Mall Gapotte,
the Sung the Evening Xtewn and the Daily Mail, The
Star daolared that the crowd had loadora and was working
to a pro-arrangod plan.
(5)
A report in the Arbitrator
came to the came concluoion, and a uritor in Concord
unsorted that the disruption of the meeting had boon
doliborutoly organiood, and demanded an enquiry,
{1) tarp 25th September 18999"
(2) Pall Mall G atte. 25th September 1$99.
(3) c, o, 417 313, Clark to Kruger, opcit.
(4ý Pall Un11 Rnzt, tta. 25th flaptcmber 1899.
ý5) 25th Soptembor 1899.
(6) Cow n cord, October 1899.
(6)