RED LEADER KIDNAPPED.
KEPT FROM A MEETING. VAIN APPEAL TO BYSTANDERS. (Received 7.25 p.m.) LONDON, March I.—The “Daily Herald” reports an astonishing outrage upon a Bed leader, Harry Pellitt, general secretary of the National Minority movement. Mr Pellitt was travelling north on Saturday to attend a Red demonstration on Sunday at Liverpool. Four men got into the train at Edgehill and threw Pellitt on to the platform, where 8 men carried him to a motor ear. 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 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.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 17 March 1925, Page 5
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