DISLOYAL TALK.
WILD SCENES AT ALDERSHOT.
COMMUNISTS SET UPON
(United Service.) LONDON, May 26. There were wild scenes at Aidershot to-day. A motor-coach load of Communists, including a uniformed band of women and children, began an open-air meeting at which the speakers attempted to spread discontent among the troops. They indulged in disparaging and disloyal remarks against Royalty. A crowd of 2000 soldiers and civilians, becoming incensed at the conduct, dashed in upon the Communists and chased them through the streets, severely handling several of them. The Communists would have suffered more only that the Assistant Provost Marshal appealed to the infuriated crowd to cease the attack,'.thus enabling the Communists to take refuge in the police station, where they wire kept for hours. They were then taken out by a back door and escorted to the railway station. The Provost Marshal paid their fares to London.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 151, 28 May 1929, Page 7
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