The New York herald., 1921-03-01
$50 COPS PROTECT
GERMAN DEFENDERS
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and singing American marching songs
they swung up the avene unhlndered
by the police.
IN front of tho Waldorf they halted TO
sing "The Star Spangled Banner and
other patriotic airs. and TO denounce the
efforts to renew German propaganda. as
they said, in this country. They then
paraded through Thirty-fouvth street
and up Broadway to Longacre square.
where after more songs and short ad-
dresses, they disbanded quietly
There was another parade and mass
meeting Of American Legion men in
Columbus Circle. Some one spicd Col
Galbraith. commander of the Legion,
standing at the curb cheering the men.
He was lifted to the shoulders Of two
ex-soldiers and carried over TO the
pedestal OF the Columbus Monument
from which he addressed the crowd.
Col Galbraith said the legion parades
we're the most heartening demonstra-
tions he had seen and that he was
Anler.icanism in the face OF the Madison
Square Garden meeting.
stick. boys" he said N conclusion
"One hundred per cent. Americanism-
enc country, Gre flag ana ono language"
Then came the cops from the West
Forty y-sevcnth street station to disperse
the meeting. a second speaker was
showed off the pedestal.
The meeting opened with the singing.
with much vgor Of the first and third
verses of "The Star Spangled Banner
Then. after benediction by Mgr. Gallus
Bruder and little waving OF American
flags. the meeting got down 10 business.
Mr.. Won Mach explained the meeting had
been called in support OF the Brtten
resolution. lie spoke with only slight
German accent
There are among us few who do not
know OF the horrors on the Rhine" he
said, "but the great bulk Of our fellow
citizens have never heard of how the vic
tory that American clood and American
money and American suffering won Is
being made use Of.
After McAIullen had Been put out to
the accompaniment OF several half
hearted kicks from people near him, Won
Mach introduced Commander Warren 5.
Fisher OF the United american War
Veterans. who said his organization was
neutral and ready to hear. Col Ander-
son was then called on. He said
u want TO say that IN speaking before
you speak not alone in tile interests
Of the protest against the horrors on the
Rhine, as that is but one instance where
America should enter its protest against
many such Incompatible horrors.
want 10 tell you all tonight that this
American country of ours has been be-
guiled time and time again into listen
ing and giving ear to the wlles and
Vaccinations OF people who have not
the interest OF America at heart"
Over on Fifth avenue ana Twenty
sixth street about the same time Lieut..
James Kelly was making an address
rendered entirely inaudible BY the
whoops OF a crowd which had seeped
through the police lines. Inside the
part OF hts address:
II vii, say 70 yoG that rot IL one
instance was there any evidence OF any
particular obnoxious atrocIty brought
TO tho attention OF myself or anybody
else connected with the regiment"
Up at Twenty street and Madi-
son avenue Thomas r. Tuite, who said
he was G. A. +. veteran, tried TO
speak, but catcalls ard questions inter-
rupted his,. The police picked five men
out o: the audience and arrested them
on charges OF disorderly conduct. Be-
tween the time % the arrest and the
arrival IN a patro! wagon at the East
street police station the
five had somehow dwindled 70 four.
They were Jacques Rueff. 26, an art
dealer o. 2IS3 Broadway; Rossell y.
Edwards. 20, a clerk Of 4P7 Seventy
third street Brooklyn; George Farley.
2s, an engraver. OF 247 East Twenty
first street, and Armando Rodriguez, 22.
a Venezuelan. living al FL Madison
avenue, a home and school FOR crippled
soldiers.
The Right Rev. Patrick James Graf
tan Mythen. Archimandrite Of the Or
thodox Church and Vicar-General OF the
archdiocese Of the Aleut!an Islands aad
North America. next spoke. lie said he
had served as 'gob" In the American
Navy during the war He attacked
President Wilson and continued:
"Oh. my friends, If they had told as
that they wanted our lives and they
wanted our money only to see TO It that
British imperialism survived az the ex-
pense OF German imperialism, with all
the drafts in the world they could not
have got an American army TO cross
that sea-
Supreme Court Justice Daniel r.. Co