COMMUNISTS ACTIVE
ANZAC DAY MEETINGS TROUBLE AT CESSNOCK SYDNEY, April 26. Communists were busy during the Anzac observances. A large force of police was sent to Cessnock when it was learned that the Reds had arranged to hold a counter-Anzac demonstration. Returned men from Kurri and Weston were rushed to Cessnock to reinforce the procession of Anzacs. Fearing that the Communists might make a hostile demonstration permission was refused the Communists to hold a procession, so they adjourned to a vacant allotment and a man, said to be a New Zealander, began an address. He was soon arrested and the police later broke up the meeting. In Sydney pamphlets were distributed stating that Anzac Day served as a means to revive afresh the ideology of British Imperialism and incite the masse with war fever. Forty spectators, mostly women, were overcome in the dense throng in Melbourne and fainted.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 98, 28 April 1930, Page 7
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