BRITISH FASCISTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 5, 5 July 1940, Page 6

BRITISH FASCISTS

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IBy' Telegraph—Kress Association— Copyright.»

(Received July 5, 1.50 a.m.)

LONDON, July 4.

Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists, appeared before the Home Office Advisory Committee in an appeal against his internment. He was brought from Brixton Prison in rf taxi.

The "Daily Herald," in a special article, reports that Fascists are building a secret organisation at 50 points in London and the home counties in preparation for Sir Oswald Mosley's release, of which they are confident.

All the old offices of the British Union have been given up and are empty. The union has gone into hiding in a derelict block in Paddington, to which stacks of books and boxes of- stationery and files have been carted in commercial vans..

Neighbours say that the vans had the letters "W.D." painted on their windscreens and also bore the War Department arrowhead sign. Apparently the union has moved into hiding by assuming the cloak of the War Office.

The correspondent adds: "I visited the block yesterday but there was nobody there. In a house used only for receiving mail I found books, leaflets, and propaganda piled nearly to the ceilings and also membership and enrolment forms, files of membership of local branches, and the names of officials covering many districts around London.

"Work is being carried out secretly in private houses every weekend. Propaganda is produced on duplicating machines and issued from these places to more venturesome helpers who take up positions in the main shopping thoroughfares and market places."

Detectives have arrested Mrs. Cordelia Whittam, wife of a former leader of the Canterbury branch of the union.