MOSLEY’S FASCIST MEETING
2500 POLICE ON DUTY STATEMENT BY HOME SECRETARY United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 2Gth March, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, 25th March. The number of police on duty in connection with Sir Oswald Mosley’s Albert Hall meeting on 22nd. instant was about 2500 in addition to 200 Held in reserve, and the estimated cost was £3OO, said Sir John Simon, Minister for Home Affairs, in the House of Commons. He added that of 24 persons arrested none complained'at the police station of injury and none asked to see a doctor. At least two policemen were severely kicked. Attempts wer« made to hold anti-Fascist meetings nearby in spite of the police prohibition and in view of attempts to upset riders truncheons had to be used.
In reply to a question as to the desirability of prohibiting the use of Albert Hall for such meetings Sir. John Simon said: “We must face the responsibilty that we are living m a free country.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 March 1936, Page 6
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