STREET FIGHTING AT RIVAL MEETINGS

Chronicle (Levin), 2 September 1947, Page 7

STREET FIGHTING AT RIVAL MEETINGS

■ — LOXDOX, Augimt oi. Stmd figliting witli knuckledusterand bolt lumkles broke out during rival meetings of iinti-Fascists and tlir British League of Kx-sPrvicpnuMi ur Haoknev touight. Speeially reinforced sqimds of broke up tlio clashoi and arrt'.-lt*d eight lmrsons. T\v(i civilhins and nnc polirmmin were slightly in.jured and oue youth was sent to hospital witli a licad in.jury. The l.ea»u(> nnvtinj; liad been in proprcss for lb lninutt's wIhmi the niebv.' beoun. Tlu' at niospliere lici-ainc danycr on^ and titi* jiolifi' di.spersed ihe nteet-i ino. Swaiin-. of yoiilli.' :in;;iii}; lln'1

' ' Horst Wes.sol ' ' song and shouting for >Sir Oswald Moslev tlien mandied with linked arms on a nearby aati-Fascisr nioeting-. This meeting liad attraeted a great crowd vvhom tlie police, witli drawn battons, -Hded to keep nioving As the marehers approached singing and shouting the poliee fonned n cordon and lield tliem baek while thc-ir op ponents . shouted: ''Down with the Fascists. " The poliee kept most of the mdagonists sejiarated nutil -the tuiti Fasi-ist tneeting ended. An observer eoinmented: "This is the Vvorst clash yet." A botnbed chur-h near the eeatre of the trouble l»ore a placard in largc letters, " hove Th.v X'eighhoui1. "