FRIENDLY SPIRIT

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 9

FRIENDLY SPIRIT

PARIS FOOTBALL MATCH

SOVIET XI V. RACING CLUB

(Received January 2, 12.5 p.m.)

PARIS, January 1

In spite of outbursts of criticism similar to that which was aroused by the Anglo-German football fixture, at London on December 4, an Associatron football match between the Paris Racing Club and a Moscow team passed off in a friendly spirit. The police placed cordons round the ground and broke up groups which attempted to demonstrate. • There were 20,000 spectators, of whom it is estimated at least 15,000. were Communists, who sang the "Internationale" when the I Soviet team appeared on the field. Tbe Racing Club won 2-1.

A London message of November 27 stated: "Drawing attention to the risk of disturbance if 10,000 Nazi football supporters coming from Germany for the international Association football match between Germany and England, as arranged, hold a procession in London in motor coaches decorated with the Swastika, the council of the Trades Union Congress sent a letter to the Home Secretary asking that the international match be banned. The letter states that large sections of British citizens view with abhorrence the Nazi Government's intolerance of organised workers."

The request was not complied with and the match passed off without any* thing in the nature of a disurbance.