LONDON INCIDENT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 264, 6 October 1936, Page 7

LONDON INCIDENT

POLICE COMMENDED. NUMEROUS ARRESTS. • PRESS COMMENT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official AYireless.) Received October G. 12.15 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 6. In connection with the Fascist march in London, altogether some 80 persons were arrested and are being charged with obstructing the police. As a result, most of the newspapers praise the police for their handling of a dangerous situation. The Times, in a leading article headed “Public Nuisance,” says: This sort of hooliganism must clearly be ended. The activities both of the Fascists and Communists in this country seem to most people to be a tedious and rather pitiable burlesque, but the law rightly allows them, like other people, to express their opinions and testify to then- beliefs by methods of processions and public meetings. V hat can be done, and what was done yesterday, is for the police to decide at tlie time on every occasion whether the procession or meeting is likely to provoke a breach of the peace, and to decide accordingly whether it is to be held or not. The decision can be taken without any regard to the relative merits of the Fascists and the Communists. To most people there does not seem much to choose between them as dangers to public order.

SCENE IN CABLE STREET

SERIOUS CLASH

LONDON, Oct. 5.

The London Hospital treated twenty people for bruises, including two girls who were trodden down, and two Fascists, following the Fascist demonstration.

The police made many baton charges. Tlie most serious clash occurred in Cable Street, where the crowd, thinking the Fascists would pass that way, took a lorry from a builder’s yard and started building a barricade." The police here charged a dozen times and received a shower of bricks and stones.