KIDNAPPED!
RED LEADER’S TREATMENT. A RAILWAY OUTRAGE. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, March 16. (Received March 16, 10.30 p.m.) The Daily Herald reports an astonishing outrage upon the Red leader, Harry Pellitt, w’ho is general secretary of the National Minority Movement. Pellitt w’as travelling north on Saturday to attend a Red demonstration at Liverpool. Four men got into a train at Edgehill and threw Pellitt on to the platform, w’here eight men surrounded him and carried him to a waiting motor car. Pellitt vainly appealed to the bystanders and porters, but was driven to a hotel where he was kept until Sunday afternoon, when the kidnappers took him to Shrewsbury station, but it was too late for him to reach the Liverpool meeting. The Daily Herald attributes the outrage to British Fascists, but many Trade Unionists have announced their dislike to the National Minority Movement and some of them may be responsible for the kidnapping.
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Southland Times, Issue 19502, 17 March 1925, Page 7
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