“HERE ARE THE FASCISTI.”
SEVERAL MEN CHARGED. * TRAFALGAR SQUARE TROUBLE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 14, 1.20 o.m. LONDON, Oct. 13. Four men. were charged at Bc.w Street Police Court in connection with the disturbance at the Communist meeting in Trafalgar Square on Sunday.- A. policeman said he heard one who wo>re a Fascisti badge calling the ciowd “dirty dogs.” One man refused to go away, and was arrested in order to> prevent a breach: of the peace, as ' the crowd was threatening. Accused • told the magistrate that" the crowd surrounded him when it saw his badge. He sang the National Anthem when lie, heard the Red Flag sung. The magistrate said he was provocative, and bound him over. The evidence- showed that three others who. were members of the crowd rushed a policeman who was taking, off a Fascist, one who struck the policemen shouting, “Come on, here are the Fascisti!” This man was sentenced to 21 days’ imprisonment, and another bound over. The magistrate the third, a lad of 17, who was described as a shop bsy, to go back and clean tlie shop, as it was useless to waste time on a ridiculous shop boy.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 October 1924, Page 7
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