Holidaying Britons at Brighton on the southern sea-coast were greeted yesterday and today with a series of anti-Semitic and pro-Fascist slogans daubed in tar on public places in the residential town.
A tall stone marker on the town boundary was defaced with the slogan: “Jews Cut! To the Brighton Ghetto.” The companion marker on the other side of road served as a blackboard for: “To British and German Dead in 1939-1945. Elsewhere in town were to be found slogans like ‘Hitler was Right’ and a number of swastikas and fascist symbols. Some were discovered yesterday and new ones were found this morning
Police investigating the vandalism have not yet been able to turn up any one who saw the slogans being painted. The road into and out of the city is rarely empty and the seaside promenade on which one slogan was painted is thronged with people except in the dead of night.
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