BRITISH FASCISTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1934, Page 5

BRITISH FASCISTS

ATTACKED BY CROWD

There were exciting scenes at Bristol when Sir Oswald Mosley, the Fascist leader, visited the city, says the "Daily Telegraph."

About 3000 people were present at tho meeting he was to address, and when he appeared he had a mixed reception.

Although a bodyguard of about 500 Fascists patrolled the gangways, there were free fights in the gallery, and during long periods Sir Oswald could not be heard.

During the meeting the hostile crowd outside the hall swelled to several thousand strong. Tho marching away of the first contingent of Blackshirts was greeted with boos and catcalls, and scores of police came up to prevent disorder.

The crowd were further incensed when two ambulances came one after another to take away injured men. One of the injured men was Basil Miller, 26, of Cheltenham, a member of the Cheltenham branch of the British Union of Fascists, who was found unconscious on a landing. The other man, Sydney Kyte, of Bristol, was more seriously hurt, and was carried unconscious on a stretcher, his head swathed in bandages and covered with blood. He had been ejected during the meeting. As he was put into the ambulance the police had to form a ring to prevent the crowd surging forward into the building. As the Blackshirts marched away in several processions, the. crowd became more demonstrative, and the police had great difficulty in keeping them in hand when the last contingent, headed by the smiling Sir Edward Mosley himself, appeared at the entrance.

Sir Oswald waved away a car which was drawn up for him, and ordering his men to fall in behind him, marched through the ranks of police and demonstrators. In more than one place during the march there were clashes between the Blackshirts and members of the crowd in which blows were struck.

Five men altogether were treated by the ambulance men as a result of injuries received during and after the meeting.