FASCISTS IN BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1940, Page 5

FASCISTS IN BRITAIN

APPEAL BY SIR 0. MOSLEY

AGAINST INTERNMENT.

ORGANISATION CONTINUING SECRET ACTIVITIES.

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright)

LONDON, July 4.

Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists, appeared before the Home Office Advisory Committee in an appeal against his internment. He was brought from Brixton prison in a taxi. The “Daily Herald,” in a special article, reports that Fascists are building a secret organisation at 50 points in London and the home counties in preparation for Sir Oswald Mosley s release, of which they are confident. All the old offices of the British union have been given up and are empty. The union has gone into hiding in a derelict block in Paddington, to which stacks of books, and boxes of stationery and files have been catted in commercial vans. Neighbours say that the vans had the letters “W.D.” painted on then: windscreens and also bore the war Department arrowhead sign. Appaienlly the union has moved into hiding by assuming the cloak of the War Office. , The correspondent adds: I visited the block yesterday, but there was nobody there. In a house used only for receiving mail I found books, leaflets, and propaganda piled nearly to the ceilings and also membership and enrolment forms, files of membership of local branches, and the names of officials covering many districts around “Work is being carried out secietly in private houses every weekend. Progadanda is produced on duplicating machines and issued from these nlaces'to more venturesome helpers who take up positions in the main shopping thoroughfares and maiket have arrested Mrs Cordelia Whittam, wife of a former leade of the Canterbury branch of the union.