FASCISTS IMPRISONED.
ALLEGED ASSOCIATES OF NAZIS. REFERENCE IN THE COMMONS. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 15. Captain A. H. M, Ramsay, Conservative member for Peebles, has given notice of motion to ask the Home Secretary to investigate the ease of G. E. Thomas, aged 32, a member of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Fascists.. Thomas alleges that he was arrested two 'days before the outbreak of war and imprisoned for eight weeks. Ho \vas kept in a verminous cell for 25 days. He was twice imprisoned in a cell in which he was only able to stand up, and there was no daylight. He had been in custody three weeks before he was informed of the nature of the charges, which referred to association with Nazis in Germany and Britain. Finally ho was discharged without explanation. Sir Oswald Mosley, in a statement, said that five members of his party had been imprisoned. Three were still detained and include Dr. Otto Bode, a distinguished German physician, a naturalised British subject, formerly in charge of tho German hospital in London. '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 31, 16 November 1939, Page 5
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