MOSLEY'S RELEASE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24748, 23 November 1943, Page 3

MOSLEY'S RELEASE

OBJECTIONS CONTINUE MEETINGS OF PROTEST PETITIONS AN I) SPEECHES (Recti. p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 21 More protests were registered at the week-end against the decision of the Home Secretary, Mr. Herbert Morrison, to release Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley from gaol. People in the West End and other parts of London lined up to sign petitions of protest and protests also were made at meetings.

Speaking in the Caxton Hall, Mr. G. L. Reakes, Independent member of Parliament for Wallasey, said: "Apparently Mr. Morrison wants to explain away why Mosley should not die in prison; but whatever Mr. Morrison savs won't pacify outraged public opin-

Mr. Arthur JOenkin, acting-general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, stated: "Whatever Mr. Morrison says of Mosley'fi illness, our people remember the illness of other political prisoners. Gandhi was at death's door but he was not released." A resolution adopted at a protest meeting of shop stewards in London asserted that workers were ready to down tools. Mr. William Lawther, president of the Mineworkers' Federation, stated that the release of Mosley was likely to seriously affect workers in the mining industry. The executive of the Communist Party passed a resolution demanding the immediate reversal of Mr. Morrison's decision, in a speech at a Communist Party protest meeting, Mr. Harry Pollitt said: "The tidal wave that has arisen,should be a warning to the Government that it cannot play with the feelings of the people when they want to win the war and the peace." The Sunday Pictorial says it asked a well-known specialist about phlebitis, from which Mosley is said to be suffering. The doctor said: "The best treatment for it is to rest—in a cell."

GERMAN TRIBUTES "SALUTE TO MOSLEY" (Rpccl. 5.3 ft p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 21 German radio stations last night broadcast a "Salute to Mosley." "Lord Haw Haw" praised Mosley's "gallant fight against international Jewry." Another speaker described Mosley as "an English gentleman conscious of the call of Germanic blood." FIGHTING IN HUNGARY YUGOSLAV PARTISAN FORCES LONDON, Nov. 21 Yugoslav forces are operating in the Banat "on Hungarian territory," where Partisan detachments have carried out a number of successful enterprises in the last few days and disarmed several smaller garrisons, states a communique from the Yugoslav People's Army of Liberation. The Banat is former Rumanian territory, part of which was "ceded" to Hungary, together with Transylvania, in 1938. In Yugoslavia itself the Partisans continue to harass enemy communications and garrisons and have repelled German attacks. GOEIIING'S PROMISE REPRISAL RAIDS PENDING (Reed. 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 22 in a speech to miners in the Ruhr quoted by the Swiss radio, Goering said: "You will soon be relieved of the strain of bombing. Reprisals will be beginning any day now."