COOK AND COAL' STRIKE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1926, Page 9

COOK AND COAL' STRIKE

.."COUNCIL OF WAR" HELD AT NOTTINGHAM

•^WA'NTBI) BY BRITISH FASCISTS,

..••(United I.cjs Association.—Copyright.) ...-.- LONDON, 19th October. .- _ Mr..- A. J. Cook figured in a lively , incident at Nottingham' last night on - -arrival in connection with an assembly of miners for a council of war which .'; is duo. to start operations in Notting"~'hamshire coalfield to-day. The'man- "' 'agero'f the hotel where Mr. Cook had -booked a room, on learning that a plot ,", 'Was, .afoot, hinted at tho advisableness -„-" of- seeking accommodation elsewhere. •■-•'Mr.- Cook refused to do so, and the / ;ma'tt_^er accordingly changed the room ■ ■>■ >_-_!• times. Eventually Mr. Cook .: ___"_>_' in a locked bedroom, under an_o ther. name. '■ 'it appears that forty young Nottingham Fascists and others were in the hotel when Mr. Cook arrived, many having.booked rooms, and were prepared to kidnap him and carry him to tho market-place and tie him there with a Union Jack round his waist. - ■'-.• The manager telephoned the police -^.superintendent, who interviewed Mr. ......Cook and the leader of the kidnappers, "'"and as a result the plan was dropped. ' •" Many extra police have been drafted ■'into;the area, also members of a special ■ "branch of Scotland Yard. The niove- ".- inents of Messrs. Herbert Smith, Rich:',"„.afd_,"Richardson, and Cook are closely „ .watched. . While the loyalist section is eagerly •■ anticipating tho executive's new cam-"-•■pa-gnj- breakaways, headed by Mr, " Speiicer, ridiculo Mr. Cook's circus. . " ""The.'"Daily Telegraph" and "Morn- ,'/ ,ihg,'Post," in editorials, question the ....legality of the miners' new campaign. '• The "Daily Express' states that it ' - understands that Moscow has intimated „ that.no further substantial help need '...he. expected, and adds as a reason that "'if'conflicts with Krassin's object to ■ 'obtain a loan.