The New York herald., 1921-03-01
$50 COPS PROTECT
GERMAN DEFENDER
But Service Men Who Speak
for Allies Are Thrown
From Garden.
WAR HEROES ARRESTED
Kaiser's Admirers Wave u. s.
Flags as Police Grab Le-
gion Members.
WAR HEROES ARRESTED

Fifteen thousand persons, including
number who could speak English
and some who could speak English
without an accent, crowded into Madi-
son Square Garden last night while
900 patrolmen, 100 plain clothes men
and fifty mounted police stood guard
They came to protest against the
horror" on the Rhine, as they char
acterized the use of French colonial
troops in Germany. Every speaker
however digressed to defend Germany
and Germans in general, and reaped
applause that shook the Garden al
every depression.
While inside the Garden twelve men
army abroad arose to protest and were
elected by policemen, additional ex-
service men and others, who said they
were merely citizens, outside were, a,
the risk Of arrest. hecklinS speakers
at four or Ave overflow meetings
These men attempted even 70 hold
meetings Of their own, at which q
good word was said for America and
Americas allies. and the fact that this
country was still at war with Ger
many was brought out. As a result
Of these efforts four former soldiers
and members Of the American Legion
and one other man were arrested. Nc
one who spoke on the other side was
arrested and patroimen with riot
sticks ready did their best to see that
they were not interrupted.
From Twenty-eighth street TO Twenty
third and from Fifth avenue to Lexing-
ton avenue cordons of police we're drawn.
and all who had no tickets to the affair
in the Garden were driven back, but
despite this a number of energetic
hecklers got through Within the Gar
den comparative quiet was had. but out
side no speaker got far in encomiums OF
Germany or dcnunciations OF France and
England before he was hooted down.
wounded Soldier Ousted.
The first to be headed for the door bv
policeman inside the Garden was
gion. a wounded soldier. who shouted ::
Don't you believe It'll" when the chair
man, Edmund Won Mach, said that every
ono In America would demand tho pas
sage by Congress OF the Britten resolu-
tion requesting France TO withdraw the
colonial troops.
Throughout the meeting whenever
speaker said something particularly kind
about Germany or bitter about England
or France the thousands sprang TO their
feet and cheered and waved tiny Ameri-
can flags. These American flags. sup
piled by the committee arranging the
affair. figured from start to finish. Every
man and woman on the platform and off
It clutched one. They were waved ex-
ultantly when McMullen. the man who
bad been downed In France by German
bullets, was elected.
Ten OF the objectors in the Garden,
all employees Of Chubb & Son. insur-
ance firn, including John Jay Schieffe-
lin. son Of William Jay SchieffelIn,
young man who won the Navy Cross In
tho war for destroying German sub
marine. attended the meeting In a body
and caused much annoyance to the audi
ence by shouting Remember the Lusi-
tania! and Remember Belgium"
Their departure from the Garden oc-
CT d about the time that Lieut. Col.
A. ~. Anderson OF the old Sxty-ninth
Infantry was telling the audience that
never In all his experience had he run
across an atrocity committed by the
Germans. Among the others who left
with young Schicffeln were Walter s.
Johnston. A. v. Farr II. V. Fauchon,
James NJ. Farr, 3D.. John Harbeck and
+. II. Gallup.
Veterans Have Last Word.
The former soldiers and sailors had
the last word of the evening. FOR after
the Garden had disgorged It's thousands
i.500 service men gathered at Twenty
seventh street and Fifth avenue. formed
In column of squads. and headed by p.
J. Carey. o knights OF Columbus sec
rctary, and a number OF men In uniform,
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