BLACK SHIRTS HOOTED
HOSTILITY AT LEICESTER. POLICE ESCORT NECESSARY. (Received 1.00 p.m.) LONDON, Jimo .14. Police reserves were called out at Leicester to clear the market place of hostile demonstrators in a crowd of several thousand on the occasion of a Blade Shirt meeting, for which detachments from the Midlands should have marched to the hall. The parade, however, Avas cancelled. This action Avas taken. OAving to Communists and unemployed planning m counter demonstration. Amid storms of booing and hissing, police escorted the Black Shirts through the hostile croAvds to a motor couch, in Avhich they departed to the accompaniment of further booing. No arrests were made, and the police acted with considerable tact, ft is learned that the Government, after a debate on Fascism, will immediately introduce a bill to ompoAVer the police to enter public meetings when it is deemed necessary, in the interests of order and freedom of discussion.
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Northern Advocate, 15 June 1934, Page 5
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