Accuse Mosley of Conducting Raid on Rival Fascist Outfit

A raid on the headquarters of the British Fascists by a rival blackshirt organization last night caused the British Fascists to come out today with the accusation that Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, personally supervised the raid. The British Fascists are known to be anti-Semitic and they differ from the British Union of Fascists in that the latter, under Mosley’s leadership, profess to reject the theory of racial discrimination.

The British Fascists as well as the British Union of Fascists wear black shirts, but the former wear a metal swastika while the latter wear fasces.

Mosley’s party, replying to the accusation of the British Fascists, denied that they were responsible for the raid and suggested that the raid probably was staged by a group of Jews in retaliation for the British Fascists’ counter-demonstration arranged at the same time, as the Jewish anti-German procession marched to Hyde Park last Thursday.

At that time the counter-demonstration passed off unnoticed, for not more than twenty men took part in it, but now that Mosley has hinted Jews were responsible for raiding the British Fascists’ headquarters, it is feared that renewed fighting between British Fascists and Jewish youths may result.

Today Mosley’s blackshirt organization continued to stress the fact that they are not anti-Semitic, and warned Jews against attacking them by mistake, as “they may lose patience and respond in a like manner.”

The frequent fights between the British Fascists and the British Union of Fascists possibly is responsible for the fact that both groups are unimportant in spite of the attraction of their showy uniforms. Between them they count less than a thousand members. While the British Union of Fascists looks toward Rome for its inspiration, the British Fascists are supposed to be inspired by Berlin, from where they are allegedly drawing their financial support.