Mosley Appeals Against His Internment

Northern Advocate, 5 July 1940, Page 6

Mosley Appeals Against His Internment

(Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 4.

The leader of the British Union of Fascists (Sir Oswald Mosley) appeared before the Home Office Advisory Committee in an appeal against his internment under the war regulations. He was brought from Brixton Prison in a taxi.

The “Daily Herald” special correspondent reports that the Fascists are building a secret organisation at 50 points in London and the Home Counties, in preparation for Mosley’s release, of which they are confident.

All the old offices of the British Union of Fascists have been given up and are empty. War Department Signs.

The union has gone into hiding in a derelict block in Paddington, to which stacks of books, boxes of stationery and files have been carted in commercial vans.

Neighbours say the vans had the letters “W.D.” painted on the windscreens, and also bore a War Department arrowhead sign.

Apparently the union moved into hiding by assuming the cloak of the War Office. The correspondent adds: “I visited the block yesterday. “Nobody was there. Propaganda Boom.

“In a house used only for receiving mail I found books, leaflets and propaganda piled nearly to the ceiling, also membership enrolment forms, files of the membership of local branches, and the names of officials covering many districts around London. “The work is being carried out secretly in private houses every weekend.

Propaganda produced on duplicating machines is issued from these places to more venturesome helpers, who take up positions in the main shopping thoroughfares and market places.”

Detectives have arrested Mrs Cordelia Whitam, wife of the former leader of the Canterbury branch of the union.