SCENES IN LONDON

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 9

SCENES IN LONDON

GERMAN EMBASSY

COMMUNISTS AND JEWS

NEW BOYCOTT MOVE

United Press Association—By Electric Teleerapli—CopjTight. I (Received December IS, 2 p.m.) LONDON, December 17. Two hundred East End Communists, including women and children, marched to the German Embassy to protest against the Reichstag lire trial. They charged through a police.cordon. Police reinforcements then made a baton charge, and scattered the demonstrators and arrested several. A minor clash in Regent Street resulted in the arrest of tho bearer of a red flag. Eventually, Alan Thomas, secretary of the International Labour Defence Committee, accompanied by a colleague, was permitted to enter the Embassy alone and to lodge a petition, but was not allowed to see the Ambassador. Subsequently, Black Shirts and Communists clashed in Trafalgar Square. Mounted police dispersed tho crowd. At AVhitechapel, a meeting of 1500 Jews resolved to boycott German goods for a week beginning on January 14.' The boycott will bo accompanied by a house-to-house canvass in order to ensure that tho Jews throughout England are participating. , Dr. M. Gaster declared: "Germany is arming, France is trembling, and "Britain is hesitating, but the Jews arc disarming Germany by cutting her economic nerve.'' (Received Dcmcmber IS, 2 p.m.) BERLIN, December 17. Jewish firms will be permitted freely to conduct Christmas sales. The Ministry of Economic Affairs is discouraging" the anti-Jewish Christmas campaign, because it is, diminishing trade generally. ,