FEDERAL ELECTIONS
MR LYONS AT SYDNEY NEW GUARD ACTIVITIES COUNTERS BY THE POLICE (United Press Assn—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, Last Night. Mr Lyons, in his final visit to Sydney before the election, made a number of speeches and was warmly re ceived New interest is imparted to the New Guard activities by the attention given them by the police under special instructions. authority for which is undisclosed. While Mr Campbell was speaking in the Town Hall last night, members of the Guard in the various suburbs, were engaged affixing posters, exhorting voters to beware of Communists. Police patrols arrested fifty and took.the names of others. Complaint is made, that while the police harass the New Guard in this manner, other persons are permitted to affix Communistic placards of an objectionable character without hindrance. In one or two cases, the Guards found men tearing down United Party posters, chased and caught and soundly thrashed them.
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Inangahua Times, 18 December 1931, Page 3
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