POLICE DISPERSAL OF PRO-FASCIST LEAGUE MEETING IN LONDON
(N. Z. P. A.— Reuter—Copyright. > London. Sept. 28. The police closed a meeting of the allegedly pro-Fascist British League of Ex-servicemen in the East End tonight, after a 90-minute shouting match between opposing factions. Fifty policemen with linked arms slowly forced a crowd of about 2000 into ’ a nearby main road, where mounted police dispersed them. Two men were arrested.
When the meeting was closed a bodyguard of members of the league escorted to a motor-car the principal speaker, Jeffrey Hamm, who was interned during the war and who is at present on bail on remand to October 10 on a charge of using insulting words at a previous meeting. League supporters in tlie crowd shouted “Heil Hamm” and anti-Jew-ish slogans. Some gave tlie Fascist salute and cried: "Down with Communism." Rivals shouted: “Germany calling" in imitation of the voice the late William Joyce used in his wartime broadcasts from Germany.
Senior officers of Scotland Yard and a group of I.about members of Parliament watched the meeting. Hamm told the meeting he had lost his job as the result of the proceedings taken against him. He said he hoped the Minister of Labour would use the Control of Engagement Order to get him another.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 30 September 1947, Page 5
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