SOCIALISTS DISTURBED.
FASCISTI SING NATIONAL
ANTHEM.
FREE FIGHT IN HYDE PARK.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received June 29, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Juno 28.
Three hundred British Fascist!, displaying the Union Jack, marched up to u Socialist meeting in Hyde Path this afternoon and drowned the speakers’ voices by singing the National Anthem and "Land of Hope and Glory.” . They paid no heed to the Socialists’ requests to desist, whereupon the Socialists rushed and tore down the Union Jack.
A crowd of two thousand assembled and encouraged the combatants, and a score of police were unable to stop the fighting, which continued till mounted police arrived.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16768, 29 June 1925, Page 11
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