THE NEW GUARD

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18639, 18 May 1932, Page 9

THE NEW GUARD

“NO FASCIST LEGION.” STATEMENT BY ERIC CAMPBELL. Mr Eric Campbell, leader Guard, said in Sydney that he fished to make It perfectly clear that the Fascist tactics were not part of the New Guard policy. . lie said also that he regarded the whole of the incident in wic * “jock” Garden was assaulted, allesedky by members of the New Guard, with tlie utmost suspicion. _ , “There is no such thing as a Fascist Legion in the New Guard, and the talk of the black hoods is so muon arrant nonsense,” ho continued. Mr Campbell said that he had read the evidence, and had come to a conclusion, of which he left the Public to judge. “It seems to me, lie continued, “that a number of decent and •thoroughly loyal New Guardsmen set out to do a job on their own aceoun., and which they considered highly desirable in the public interest aim n the squeals that rent the night air are any criterion, they apparently did it thoroughly. They got clean away. Treated as a Criminal. “Someone, however, gave a complete list of names and addresses to the police. The police were m possession of the full facts at 9 o clock on Friday morning; yet they wait until after midnight, dramatically arrest these men at their homes, stage nn absolutely unauthorised raid on New Guard headquarters, and detain the secretary of the New Guard foi five hours, and treat him as a criminal. “He is arrested at his house in lb a early hours of the morning without an y warrant, and when he threatens I to resist arrest lie is told lie will be ( bodily dragged to the Central Police Station. “The police are endeavouring to harass the New Guard in overy possible way. The Friends of the Soviet | Union headquarters is next to the Central police ofllce. j Openly Revolutionary. | “That body is openly revolutionary, i is In direct touch with Moscow, and j numbers In its ranks some of the worst men in Australia. They sing 'The Red Flag’ there every day, and nearly lift the roof off the building.. They go unmolested. ! “Murderers wander at large in ' Sydney, yet at present a large num- ! her of the leading detectives are em- ! ployed In harassing the only organisation that is a bulwark against Sovietism and which treasures the British j tradition. 1 “In the meantime the Slate is going • fast to destruction, while Mr Lyons 1 seeks by of Parliament to cast out the protligate manager of the bankrupt State."