DANGERS TO PUBLIC ORDER IN BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1936, Page 7

DANGERS TO PUBLIC ORDER IN BRITAIN.

ISEW HOOLIGANISM. Fascist and "Red" Activities Must End. SEQUEL TO SUNDAY'S FRACAS. British Official Wireless. (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, October 5. In connection with the Fascist march in London, altogether some 180 persons were arrested and are being charged with obstructing the police. As a result most newspapers praise the police for their handling of a dangerous situation. "The Times," in a leading article, headed, "A Public Nuisance," says: "This sort of hooliganism must clearly be ended. The activities of both Fascists and Communists in this country seem to most people to fee a tedious and rather pitiable burlesque, but the law rightly allows tliem, like other people, to express their opinions and testify to their beliefs by methods of procession and public meetings. "What can be done, and what was done yesterday, is for the police to decide at the time on every occasion whether a procession or meeting is likely to provoke a breach of the peace and to decide, accordingly, whether it is to be held or not. "Such decision can be taken without any regard to the relative merits of Fascists and Communists. To most people there does not seem much to choose between them as dangers to public order."