LONDON COMMUNISTS CALL AT ALDERSHOT
Sedition Unpopular REFUGE FROM CROWD IN POLICE STATION A PM. PAYS PARE HOME. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Monday, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, May 26. There wcro wild scenes at Aldershot when a motor coach-load of Communists, including a band of women and children, travelled from London and began an open air meeting at which the speakers seditiously attempted to spread discontent among the troops. They indulged in disparaging disloyal remarks against royalty. A crowd of 2000, consisting of soldiers and civilians, incensed at their conduct, dashed in upon the Communists’ ranks and chased them through the streets, severely handling several, who would have suffered more only an assistant Provost Marshal appealed to the infuriated crowd to cease, enabling the Communists to take refuge in the police station, where they wero kept for hours, then taken out by a back door, the police escorting them to the railway station. The Provost Marshal paid their fares to London.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 7
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163LONDON COMMUNISTS CALL AT ALDERSHOT Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 7
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