§ 77. Mr. SNOWDENasked whether any efforts have been made to trace the instigators of hooliganism at meetings held in connection with the recent women suffrage pilgrimage in cases where the disorder was apparently organised; and if any evidence has been obtained to lead to the conclusion that the disorder at all places was organised from one centre?
§ Mr. McKENNAI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave yesterday to two questions by the Noble Lord the Member for Hitchin. I received yesterday a statement of the complaint made by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, and I propose at once to communicate with the police authorities concerned. No suggestion has been made by the National Union that the disorder was organised from any centre, and all the evidence that I have tends to show that it was due to outbursts of local hooliganism.
§ Lord ROBERT CECILHas the attention of the right hon. Gentleman been directed to the case at Cirencester in connection with the action of students of the Royal Agricultural College?
§ Mr. McKENNACertainly, my attention was called to that particular case.