Shouting Match Ended By London Police
(Rec. 1 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. The police closed a meeting of the allegedly pro-Fascist British League of Ex-seryicemen in London’s East End tonight after a 90-minute shouting match between opposition factions.
Fifty policemen with linked arms slowly forced a crowd of about 2000 into a nearby 1 main road, where mounted police dispersed them. The police arrested two. ‘ A league bodyguard, when the meeting closed, escorted to a motorcar the principal speaker, Jeffrey Hamm, who was interned during the war and who is at present on bail on remand to October 10 on charges of using insulting words at a previous meeting. League supporters in the crowd shouted: “Heil Hamm” and antiJewish slogans. Some gave the Fascist salute, and cried “Down with Communism.” Rivals shouted, “Germany calling,” in imitation of the voice which the late William Joyce used in his wartime broadcasts from Germany. Senior officers’ of Scotland Yard and a group of Labour members Oi Parliament watched the meeting. ' Hamm told the meeting that he had lost his job as a result of the proceedings taken against him. He said that he hoped that the Minister of Labour, Mr Isaacs, would use the Control of Engagement Order to get him another.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 September 1947, Page 5
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