BRITISH FACISTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 September 1924, Page 12

BRITISH FACISTS.

70,000 IN LONDON

SIR THOMAS HENLEY’S STATE-

MENT.

PREMANTLE, Sept. 18. V, hue staying at a country juune in fhfvrt my r^?r St , told me thi4C when he Prince of TV ales was staying there he had received a- long message from the workmen m that industrial districtexpressing their warm welcome, and pledging their loyalty to the King the Prince, the Throne, and the Empire Ihe message was signed by the chief of the fascists of that industrial centre adv, J W rw ol^ 1 left England I was 70 000 here t are , no less than 01,000 r ascists in London watching developments, and ready tri strike when the hour comes.” , \ These two remarkable statements were made yesterdt-y bv Sir Thomas Henley, K.8.E.,. M:L.A.;-ef Tdew- South' the l:m.S° ?Kiv: ro “ gh the «• .Sir Thomas Henley has been on a visit to. the United Kingdom. Sir Thomas said he,was sorry to admit that in the Mother of Parliaments deCade i ice iit as deplorably evident At Westminster, ’’ *he said, ’ “there off , ice of Imperial control without a mandate from the people they govern . During the- war these men were admitted defeatists, and associated with our enemies in urging the British nation to surrender to those who.forced war upon the world and 1 for , Pf a ce by negotiation. These political place-hunters were mistrusted in the war wears, and have made no statement .of repentance since: On the ecmtrary they are coquetting with the Bolshevists, and are bartering away th f { T§ r€at Pi’inciples of Runnfmede. The records of Westminster can offer no such parallel'in hetrayak” Sir Jhomas continued, .“and for much of it Mr Lloyd and Mr Asquith are senouslv .to blame. It is clear that England is now reaping a big harvest of Lloyd Georgean-Communistic fares. Nevertheless,'there is a fringe of‘silver lining around the dark cloud, and I - . l . ev ® fhat the hour demands a man witli the power of Oliver Cromwell and Bern to Mussolini boiled into one England is in a bad way, but the position is moving towards a crisis. Employers being hard hit with socialistic*trade .intolerance.- England is being made the dumping ground for the-foreign manufacturer. England is doned with coles, while tens of thousands of acres of land are idle or partially idle awaiting profitable labour.” -