Anti-war Leaflets Thrown at Meeting Of Montgomery’s

Grey River Argus, 8 October 1948, Page 5

Anti-war Leaflets Thrown at Meeting Of Montgomery’s

LONDON, October 6,

At a recruiting meeting addressed by Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, a handful of anti-war leaflets similar to those thrown on previous days was tossed into the air five minutes after Viscount Montgomery had finished speaking.

As non-commissioned officers distributed Territorial Army literature from a mobile recruiting van in a side street near the Mansion Flouse, an argument arose between rival factions of the large crowd which gathered around the van. The police led away one man who shouted anti-war slogans. Three students who' were arrested after the disturbance at the meeting at the Mansion House, at which Mr Anthony Eden spoke yesterday, were charged at the Mansion House Court under an 81-year-old Metropolitan Street Act with distributing handbills by way of advertising in a manner not approved by the commissioner of police. They were bound over for six months.

The Magistrate warned that similar cases would be treated severely in future.