KISCH AND GRIFFIN IN PROCESSION
DEMONSTRATION AGAINST WAR MELBOURNE, February 28. The city's largest anti-war demonstration was seen by crowds lining the streets when 6000 men, women, and children in a torchlight procession marched to the Yarra Bank, where Herr Egon Kisch and Mr Gerald Griffin addressed a gathering of 12,000. Limping at the head of an aborigines gumleaf band, Kisch was cheered at strong posts of the crowds. Kisch was to have left immediately after the demonstration for Adelaide to catch a boat to England, [but a hitch in the arrangements i caused the trip to be cancelled.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21411, 1 March 1935, Page 17
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