DISTURBANCE IN LONDON
MEETING BROKEN UP BY POLICE .Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, August 24. Fireworks and stones were thrown and knuckle-dusters were used after more than 100 police, assisted by patrol cars, dispersed a meeting of the British League of Ex-Servicemen in Dalston, East London, to-day. The crowd then marched to another nearby political meeting and tried to break that up. The police formed cordons between the groups and diverted them into another road where traffic was held up for half an hour. The British League of Ex-Service-men is described by opponents as a Fascist body. The “Daily Mail” says that when the police began to disperse the League’s meeting Communist bystanders sang *he “Internationale” and shouted “Mosley.” The “Daily Worker” (Communist), taking up the story, says that League supporters then marched to a nearby Communist street meeting where they threw stones and shouted slogans until the police formed a cordon between the groups.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25272, 26 August 1947, Page 7
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