THE BLACK SHIRTS
MEETING AT LEICESTER A HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. June 14. : (Received June 15, at 1.25 p.m.) The police reserves were called out at Leicester to clear .the market place of hostile demonstrators. There was a crowd of several thousand on the occasion of a Black Shirt meeting, for which detachments from the Midlands should have marched to the hall, but the parade was cancelled owing to Communists and unemployed planning a counter-demonstration. Amid storms of booing and hissing the police escorted the Black Shirts through the hostile crowd to a motor coach, and they departed amid further booing. No arrests were made, the police acting with considerable tact. It is learned that the Government, after a debate on Fascism, immediately introduced a Bill to empower the police to enter public meetings where deemed neessary in the interests of drcler and freedom of discussion.
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Evening Star, Issue 21747, 15 June 1934, Page 12
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148THE BLACK SHIRTS Evening Star, Issue 21747, 15 June 1934, Page 12
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