Trouble at Leicester
©LACK SHIRTS FORCED TO LEAVE TOWN, LONDON, June 16. Police reserves were called out at Leicester to dear the market place of hostile demonstrators, a crowd of several thousand, on the occasion of a Black Shirt meeting, for which detachments from the Midlands should have marched to the hall, but the parade was cancelled owing to Communists and unemployed planning a counter-demon-stration. Amid storms of booing and hissing the police escorted the Black Shirts, through the hostile crowd to a motorcoach, in which they departed amid further booing. No arrests were made, the police acting with considerable tact. It is learned that the Government, after tho dobate on Fascism, will immediately introduce a Bill to empower the police to enter public meetings where it is deemed necessary in the interests of order and freedom of discussion.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7493, 18 June 1934, Page 9
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139Trouble at Leicester Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7493, 18 June 1934, Page 9
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